Word: alton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Country Life. In Phoenix, Ariz., Harry Schmidlin offered for sale: "Two pair shoes, slightly used. Going back to Arkansas." Girl Trouble. In Alton, Ill., the parking meters were getting acute indigestion from a diet of too many hairpins...
...infinitely patient Isaac Burton Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
Last week Tigrett was in Manhattan dickering with the bondholders' protective committee of the Alton. He got the committee to agree to swap $45 million of Alton 35, due in 1949, for $23 million of G.M. & 0. 4% income bonds, and 328,787 shares of common stock...
...railroads rigged their rates on freight for export so that the vast flow of cargoes from the West passed through North Atlantic ports. Item: from Alton, Ill. to Baltimore or New York the first-class freight rate is $1.68 per 100 pounds. But to the deep-water port of Savannah the rate is $2.39, though the mileage from Alton to the three ports is about the same...
Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...