Jim Guthrie writes: - -------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Burt writes: > The ICC was not the "commerce court" that Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft talked about when campaigning for greater ICC powers 1904-1910, it was an unseemly free-for-all.< But the ICC was assigned different jobs/objectives over the years. There's no broad brush over its entire history that describes it well. **** The ICC did indeen change, so it's important for us to recognize which ICC we're talking about as we dicuss Erie, DL&W and EL (RB)*** I was in college in DC in the 1960s (GWU) majoring in business with a Transportation and Traffic Management sepcialty (they still called it that -- it later became Business Logistics -- . . . >a memory: As a young congressional staffer, I attended the 1974 meeting of the ICC Practitioners Association in downtown Washington to listen to an assistant attorney general from the U.S. Department of Justice . . .advocate substituting We had several students whose only goal in life was a sinecure as an ICC Practitioner. Not much pay, but good benefits and a good pension. *** An ICC practitioners was anyone educated, examined and licensed by the ICC to practice before the ICC for anybody; most of us worked as employees in the corporate world, with pay and benfits comensurate with our education and resposibilities. Most of us didn't just "push paper"; I spent most of my working life explaining to higher management why it was necessary to spend money to move stuff (or people) and that Traffic, Transportation or Logistics would never be a revenue center. *** (RB) Randy Brown The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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