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...Jersey which would carry B. & O. over tracks of its own into New York. From Pennsylvania-controlled Wabash, the B. & O. would secure the Ann Arbor as an outlet into Michigan. It would retain Western Maryland, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo & Susquehanna, Lehigh & Hudson. Its possession of Chicago & Alton would take it to Kansas City...
Between Chicago and Kansas City run the tracks of Chicago & Alton. Midway on the system is Wilmington, Ill., a town of 1,500. To Wilmington last week came a special train. A few minutes after its arrival, Herbert Alvin Lundahl, 48, short, pleasant, silver-haired member of the Chicago Club, mounted a special platform in the old red-brick station. As special I master-in-chancery, he droned through a long description of all the Chicago & Alton's property, from stations to lanterns. "What am I bid?" he asked after a description of each of the five lots into which...
Bronchiectasis, dilatation and inflammation of the bronchial walls, is the unsuspected cause of 95% of all "bronchitis" cases.-Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner, New Orleans. Dr. Ochsner has not yet placated Governor Huey Pearce Long of Louisiana, who ousted the able young surgeon from his post in New Orleans' Charity Hospital (TIME...
...face wry with suppressed vituperatives Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of New Orleans last week sedulously searched for the scoundrel who stole the carbon copy of a letter he recently wrote to a friend, Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, professor of surgery at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Ochsner, 34, has since 1927 been professor of surgery at old (founded 1834) and ponderously named School of Medicine of the College of Medicine of the Tulane University of Louisiana. He succeeded famed Professor Rudolph Matas. Tulane wanted Dr. Ochsner "to bring the medical school to the highest possible...
...consolidation plan. Better to fight its two great rivals, New York Central and Pennsylvania, B. & O. has long wished a westward extension. At first it eyed Wabash. But the I. C. C. assigned to it not Wabash but the long-sickly Chicago & Alton...