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Maine's Aroostook County, dotted with neat white farmhouses and big gambrel-roofed barns, is the most northeasterly county in the U.S. Its richest farmers have become rural capitalists, with offices in town, four-hole Buicks in the garage, sons at Harvard, and winters in Florida. It was all thanks to potatoes-and, in recent years, to the wild generosity of the U.S. Government...
...Denver, Rio Grande & Western, with a net of $3,583,395, was up 260%. A major exception was Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio (see below), whose profits were nipped a third by the mine stoppage. Even the small, potato-hauling Bangor & Aroostook, which had not made money in any June since 1935, showed a profit of about $20,000 last month...
...Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...
...Known for 50 years as the Potato Road, Bangor & Aroostook suffered with Maine farmers, last year skipped its common payment for the first time since 1904. But this year booming shipyards and revitalized textile mills are filling some of the cars once loaded with potatoes. When February gross increased 9% to $558,000, net operating income...
...Just to remind the public that railroads were still railroads, Maine's potato-carrying Bangor & Aroostook fell from grace last week, passed its dividend for the first time since...