Word: atchison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...measured against the great era of railroad building. But it is a small indication of the aggressive railroading for which the Santa Fe has been famed ever since the first seven-mile stretch was laid near Topeka almost 100 years ago. By always reaching out for new customers, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway...
...University of Southern California, 34 men solemnly marched into a banquet hall one evening last week for a special commencement ceremony. They were trainmasters, paymasters, auditors and public-relations men. Their ages ranged from 28 to 54. Employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, they had just finished a rugged new six-week course: how to think clearly about the society in which they live...
Drunk & Fired. Gene Howe was the son of the moody, melancholy Ed Howe, the "Sage of Potato Hill," who made his Atchison (Kans.) Globe one of the most quoted papers in the nation and wrote Story of a Country Town, a bitter novel about small-town Babbittry. But young Gene Howe never had an easy time of it. He quit high school after two months, was often at odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene...
...Atchison, he could never escape the shadow of his father and he got tired of being known only as "Ed Howe's son." He went to Texas and started the afternoon Amarillo Globe. Two years later he bought the morning News. Gradually he spread his newspaper holdings all over the Southwest, although in recent years he trimmed his chain from eleven to five papers (in Amarillo, Lubbock and Atchison) and two radio stations...
Free & Equal. Over the last year, Gene Howe showed signs of losing his zest for journalism. He sold his Atchison Globe to two old associates, told friends he was getting weary of fighting his competitor, the Amarillo Times, which had been backed by the oil-rich Whittenburg family. Last December the Whittenburgs bought 35% of Howe's enterprises, and the Times and Globe merged. Gene Howe talked of retiring, but went right on writing his column. He worried, however, about his health, although repeated checkups showed nothing was wrong with...