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...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, which countered Southern Pacific's challenge by quickly picking up a 20% holding in Western, wants to run Western as a separate, semi-autonomous railroad, continue to use it to compete with the Southern Pacific. Other railroads joined the fight. The Santa Fe's transcontinental archrival, the Union Pacific, whose lines tie in with the Southern Pacific's, said that it had bought up 10% of Western's stock and that it supported the S.P. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, which competes with the Santa Fe in the Midwest, also came...
TRAIN TRIPS ON CUFF will be started for first time in U.S. railroad industry by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe on June 1. Passengers must pay 10% on minimum fare of $60, can pay off complete trips over periods up to two years...
...biggest price-support fiascos in U.S. Agriculture Department history was the attempt to support the price of eggs. When eggs in cold storage went rotten, the department, in desperation, turned to buying dried eggs, stored tons of them in a cave near Atchison, Kans. By the time the Government decided in 1953 that supporting egg prices hurt even the farmers, by encouraging the overproduction it was intended to counteract, total taxpayer losses passed $331 million...
...hard-hit railroads were steaming back fast. Chesapeake & Ohio earned $51.7 million or $6.36 a share in 1958-the fourth best net in its 122-year history. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe earned $5,139,849 in November compared to $3,659,613 a year earlier, and New York Central made $2,633,054 in November against a loss of $1,894,625 a year earlier...
Light & Air. Redheaded young Father Egan had graduated from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kans. and earned an M.A. in sociology at the University of Notre Dame; he was determined to let some fresh air and light into the academic stronghold of St. Bernard. First, he banded together with a group of younger priests, some of whom he had known in prep school. One of these, Irish-born Father Malachy Shanaghan, who is now head of St. Bernard's English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect...