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...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...
...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...
...Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard...
...scholarly, 64-year-old President D'Alton Corry Coleman, who joined C.P. as a clerk 44 years ago, is not being stampeded into generous sharing of these profits. He wisely has used net to pay off large chunks of funded debt, and has hoarded cash for postwar rehabilitation. New trains and tracks will be needed by the railway. The ocean fleet, now acknowledged to have lost the 42,348-ton world-cruise liner Empress of Britain in the North Atlantic and the plucky 21,517-ton Empress of Canada in the shark-infested waters off West Africa, must...