Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directorates of some Western lines, notably the Kansas City & Southern. Instead of waiting to be eaten up by one or another of the "Big Four" Eastern lines (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio and Nickel Plate), Loree resolved to do some of the eating himself, and purchased the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. Next, his hand was suspected in a mysterious purchase of the Ann Arbor by the Wabash- which, as is well known, Air. Loree covets lor his "fifth system." As yet, however, this proposal for another Eastern railway merger is not taken seriously, except as an obstructing move...
...country is that undertaken by the Electric Bond & Share Co., now approaching fruition. The properties being assembled for this giant merger include parts of the Electric Power & Light Co., American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Southeastern Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, Carolina Power & Light, Lehigh Power Securities, and Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern. All these are either controlled or managed by the Electric Bond & Share Co. or allied interests...
...Buffalo Knoxville...
...keeps his eyes on things has proposed to buy them for scrap at scrap prices. But all was not generally known until the Chairman of the Shipping Board ("T. V. O'C.") made a speech, last week, to some travelers on a boat plying between Detroit and Buffalo...
...whole thing is a joke," said Mr. Wheeler, when he got back to Buffalo; and he went on to state that although he saw no one "staggering drunk", several "were a little wobbly." As if this slur on the quality of Ontario's four per cent beer were not enough, he even characterized it as "slops...