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...this drama of early capitalism's fight with the wild west, Paramount toted a dozen has-beens, a handful of heavies, and an old engine left over from The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe up the Great Divide, hashing the plot together...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 13,074 miles...
...fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think it was staged with miniatures...
Chesapeake and Ohio (Lindy Doherty; Capitol). A new novelty chugs along the tracks cleared by such crack trains as the Chattanooga Choo Choo and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
What swept the market along was a wave of stock splits, which always make the market more inviting. On the same day that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) announced plans to give stockholders 2 shares for 1, the stock jumped 1 3/4 to 100⅝. Next day Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway proposed a similar split, and its common soared 5½ to 165. All told, there were a dozen stock splits or stock dividends proposed or approved last week. Only a week before, three big oil companies-Phillips, Gulf and Texas-had split their shares 2 for 1, adding...