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Thirteen of those 15 grave men who have been directing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. to crescent prosperity last week made themselves comfortable in the directors' room of the company's Manhattan suite and, having digested the predigested reports of the road's efficacy during the past year, made a decision which they knew would be pleasing to their stockholders who are to meet at Topeka, Kan., the last Thursday of this month...
Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the plan or not." The "plan" is for the railroads to assume the $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual business of the American Railway Express Company. Later, President Storey declared, rather to the surprise of railroad executives generally, that he had the approval of railroads carrying...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway
Gradually, Myron Taylor cut down his textile holdings and became essentially a banker. He was elected to the directorate of two railroads- the New York Central and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; he was made a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. It was rumored that Banker Baker persuaded Myron Taylor to become one of the directors of U. S. Steel; surely, it was his support coupled with the approval of John P. Morgan that gave Myron Taylor one of the three executive offices in this gargantuan corporation...
...Atchison...