RAILROADS: Help! Help!

In the fight for control of the New York Central, both sides went looking for outside help. To the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Central's management last week sent a 17-page petition asking the Commission to check up on all of Robert R. Young's maneuvers since the fight began, charging that they violated ICC regulations.

Specifically, the Central charged that the sale by Young's Alleghany Corp. of its Chesapeake & Ohio stock holdings to Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton was just a trick to skirt the ICC rules, that Young and Alleghany still control...

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