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Word: amerlean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeeded by W. W. Atterbury, another member of the thinning company of self-made captains of industry. W. W. Atterbury, however, is no captain, but a general, that title having been formally conferred upon him on the occasion of services which he rendered as chief railroad man for the Amerlean Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Atterbury's biography, if drawn up by the late Alger, might be entitled, From Apprentice to President. Although he began his formal career as a shop apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, he is a graduate of Yale (1886), wears a rakish hat, offsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atterbury for Rea | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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