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7. Information about managing under ICC oversight from author’s interview with Paul Richardson, Holmdel, NJ, January 14, 1992.
8. M.P. McLean, Jr.—Control; McLean Trucking Co.—Lease—Atlantic States Motor Lines Incorporated, ICC No. MC-F-3300, 45 MCC 417; M.P. McLean, Jr.—Control; McLean Trucking Company, Inc.—Purchase (Portion)—Garford Trucking, Inc., ICC No. MC-F-3698, 50 MCC 415.
9. The cigarette case is Cigarettes and Tobacco from North Carolina Points to Atlanta, 48 MCC 39 (1948).
10. Author’s interviews with Paul Richardson, Holmdel, NJ, July 20, 1992, and Walter Wriston, New York, June 30, 1992. McLean’s success in using his management techniques to turn around Carolina Motor Express, a troubled company of which he had assumed temporary control in 1952, is detailed in M.P. McLean, Jr.—Control; McLean Trucking Company—Control—Carolina Motor Express Lines, Inc. (Earl R. Cox, Receiver), 70 MCC 279 (1956).
11. M.P. McLean, Jr.—Control; McLean Trucking Co.—Lease—Atlantic States Motor Lines Incorporated, 45 MCC 417; M.P. McLean, Jr.—Control; McLean Trucking Company, Inc.—Purchase (Portion)—Garford Trucking, Inc., 50 MCC 415; ICC, Transport Statistics in the United States 1954, Part 7, Table 30; Wriston interview.
12. Author’s telephone interview with William B. Hubbard, July 1, 1993.
13. Author’s telephone interview with Earl Hall, May 12, 1993; author’s telephone interview with Robert N. Campbell, June 25, 1993.
14. The first public notice of the container scheme appeared in A. H. Raskin, “Union Head Backs ‘Sea-Land’ Trucks,” NYT, February 17, 1954.
15. PANYNJ, Foreign Trade 1976 (New York, 1977), p. 23; author’s interview with Paul Richardson, Holmdel, NJ, July 20, 1992; PNYA, Weekly Report to Commissioners, March 13, 1954, 16, in Doig Files; PNYA, Minutes of Committee on Port Planning, April 8, 1954, 2, in Meyner Papers, Box 43.
16. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation, “Summary of Post-World War II Coastwise Operations,” mimeo, n.d.; Wriston interview; Phillip L. Zweig, Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy (New York, 1995), p. 78.
17. The details of this convoluted transaction are reviewed in ICC, Case No. MC-F-5976, McLean Trucking Company and Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation—Investigation of Control, July 8, 1957.
18. McLean’s net worth as of September 1955 appears in “I.C.C. Aide Urges Waterman Sale,” NYT, November 28, 1956. McLean quotation is from author’s interview with Gerald Toomey, New York, May 5, 1993.
19. Wriston interview. The McLean quotation is from Zweig, who interviewed McLean for Wriston, p. 79.
20. Wriston interview; Zweig, Wriston, p. 81; Janet Berte Neale, “America’s Maritime Innovator,” program for AOTOS Award 1984. Many of the relevant financial details were not included in McLean Industries’ financial reports.
21. McLean Industries, Annual Report for the year ending December 31, 1955.
22. The program of which McLean took advantage was intended to help traditional ship lines, not upstart challengers. As Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan point out, “It took an innovator from another sector of the transportation industry to see how the trade-in program, designed to renew the subsidized fleet, could be used to help launch a revolution that eventually transformed the entire industry.” See their The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy (Columbia, SC, 2000), p. 176.
23. “Railroads Assail Sea-Trailer Plan,” NYT, February 11, 1955; ICC, McLean Trucking Company and Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation—Investigation of Control; McLean Industries, Annual Report, 1955, pp. 5 and 11; U.S. Department of Commerce, Annual Report of the Federal Maritime Board and Maritime Administration,