Posted by Nicholas at April 1, 2006 12:02 AMNobody even remembers what the Interstate Commerce Commission used to do. But you've probably been in the old ICC building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. It had a choice spot in Washington. Important agency, important location, big building. This was a key federal agency. And it spent its time hearing arguments about whether this truck line ought to be able to carry cigarettes in the same trucks as it carried textiles or whether the rates that were being charged to carry pretzels were adequate. People have trouble remembering that today.
Marc Levinson, quoted by Virginia Postrel in "The Box that Changed the World", Dynamist Blog, 2006-03-23
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