Word: burlington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Celebrated (together with Mrs. Coolidge) the 18th anniversary of their marriage, which took place at Burlington...
...Counsel, and still later President of the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific (Harriman) Railroads. He feels that these roads would not be fairly treated under Mr. Holden's proposed plan. Mr. Holden's plan provides for four railway systems: (1) The Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington (Hill); (2) The Union Pacific (Harriman) and other minor roads; (3) The Santa Fe; (4) The Southern Pacific (Harriman) and others...
While the President and his wife were in Florida, Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge quietly departed for their home in Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Coolidge plans to go to Burlington, Vt., to visit her father...
...mergers as a cure for the railroad problem in the United States. Holden's plan, supported by Hines and other big railroad executives, contemplates a rail consolidation that would tie up every road west of the Mississippi Valley gateways into four great systems. As designated these would be the Burlington, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific systems, all reaching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to tap the Panama traffic and to the Pacific Coast to meet the Oriental trade. Net income and investment of each of these lines would be about the same...
...combine the 62 railway systems west of Chicago into four great groups is the plan of President Hale Holden of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Each group would include 30,000 to 35,000 miles of rail; each would have an investment value of approximately two billions; each would have access to the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean. The divisions proposed are based geographically upon the four great systems of the West...