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Young drew.blood. Like every railroadman, Young had heard of the reported "gentleman's agreement" by which western railroads since 1934 have slowed their fastest freight lines to the speed of their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat of 37 a minute, stayed ahead the whole way, won by ten lengths. At the finish the Oxonians looked done in, the Cantabrigians fresh enough for another race. Time: 23 min. 1 sec.-slowest since...
...prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president of the Fuller Brush Co. He had won the slowest Bermuda race since the first race 40 years...
...starting Lord Boswell came charging up. At the finish, Assault, obviously tiring, was just a neck ahead-enough to earn the $99,120 first prize. On the record, Assault was the best of 1946's three-year-olds, but his Preakness winning time (2:01 2/5) was the slowest in 13 years. Ten years before, Assault's daddy, Bold Venture, won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness-and never another race...