Word: icc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council of the club presidents, the ICC [Interclub Committee], directs all 100 percenters to report to the back porch of Ivy at 9:30 sharp (oh heavy irony here, on the back porch of Ivy, entering not the front door or being admitted to the parlor, but stumbling through the dark around the carousing house, and coming through the servants' entry...
...year leviathan, the agency produced some startlingly ludicrous anomalies. Agricultural haulers, for example, could carry milk but not yogurt or ice cream; truckers could move grain from farm to market but could not take animal feed back in their empty trucks. Reason: both milk and grain were exempt from ICC regulation as unprocessed commodities, whereas yogurt, ice cream and animal feed were regulated...
Perhaps the most damaging effect of ICC controls was that they hindered competition. Companies trying to obtain the right to haul goods between one state and another had to face costly and exhausting ice hearings, where they were obliged to show that they would not hurt existing firms. Truckers already on the road naturally protested that they would suffer. Timothy Person, a black St. Louis mover of household goods, worked for nearly 30 years to have his company licensed to transport goods outside Missouri. Nine national carriers opposed him, but in February Person finally won a nationwide license...
Last week's action culminated a long and arduous political fight. Senator Edward Kennedy first began holding hearings almost three years ago about the possibility of freeing the industry from some ICC rules, and President Carter sent his bill to Congress on June 21, 1979. In an unusual display of accord, the two rivals both lobbied hard for the measure. But the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations fought it. The A.T.A. spent more than $1 million on a public relations campaign to convince legislators that deregulation would mean increased prices, wasted gasoline and decreased service to small...