Word: brinley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Charles E. Brinley, who now fills the shoes of genial Patriarch Samuel Vauclain as head of Baldwin's management, may get Baldwin's break-even point down to its old $30,000,000 level (it was in the red last year on total business of $33,000,000). If he does, U. S. Naval expansion should soon increase Baldwin's non-locomotive business enough to put the company in the black. If Baldwin then got another $30,000,000 of locomotive business, and $5-10,000,000 of railroad accessory business, thanks to the Government...
...rewarding passages in Golden Apples are those dealing with Luke and Allie Brinley, children of poor farmers who were left orphans when Luke was 14, Allie 10. Avoided by their neighbors, who felt guilty at deserting them but did not want to be burdened, Luke and Allie tried to farm, then ran off into the wilderness where they took over an abandoned house owned by an English family. Their independence, isolation, and desperate attempt to make the place habitable seem to promise that Golden Apples is to develop into one of those honest fantasies of man's barehanded struggle...