Word: icc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LOWER PULLMAN FARES will be tried in an experiment to increase off-season travel. ICC has given Pullman Co. permission to cut fares (until April 30) on berths, roomettes and compartments as much as 40% on 15 railroads operating west of Chicago...
...Interstate Commerce Commission. Ever since a McGinnis group won control of the Boston & Maine Railroad last April, the B. & M. president's chair has been empty, and McGinnis aspired to fill it, as he does the presidency of the New Haven. When he failed to show up before ICC Examiner Homer T. Kirby to push his application, his lawyer explained that he was busy 24 hours a day personally dealing with the New Haven's problems. Asked Examiner Kirby: "If Mr. McGinnis spends all his waking and sleeping hours running the New Haven, how can he possibly...
...native Ohioan and Big Man on Campus (Ohio State), Minor came to ICC by a remarkably circuitous route. He worked summer vacations as an entertainer in New York's borscht circuit, later spent a year touring 40 states with a Major Bowes unit as part of a three-man comedy act called The Micro Maniacs. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Minor rose to command a machine-gun company in the Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where...
...Louis-San Francisco Railroad and the Central of Georgia is finally in the works after about two years of effort by Frisco President Clark Hungerford. For more than $15 milhon Frisco has bought 239,709 shares of Central stock (47% of the total), is filing application with the ICC for permission to buy control of Central making a new system stretching 7,000 miles from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. The two roads will be operated as separate divisions under their current managements, have a combined value of nearly $500 million...
Railroad and bus companies have a right to test the ICC ruling in the federal courts. After the Jan. 10 deadline, individual Negroes or the ICC may bring suits demanding compliance with the order. It may take years, in some cases, for appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court; but there is little doubt that the ICC and the courts are moving in the same direction...