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Ralph Budd, the "president of railroad presidents," obeyed one of his own rules and announced last week that a new man would be running the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad on Sept. i. A Budd-made regulation requires executives of the fourth longest U.S. railroad system to retire when they reach...
...York, Ralph F. Lewis of Time, Inc., and roderick McRae, Vice-President of Bank of New York and fifth Avenue Bank; Greensbore, North Carolina, Charles F. Myers, Jr., Vice-President of Burlington Mills Corp.; San Francisco, California, John F. Marshall, Consultant; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, David N. Huseman, Presidetn of Houdry Process Corp., and Donald T. Brophy of Rohm and Haas...
...Lyndon Teachers' College, a state teachers' college in Vermont, the dean of the college, Luther Macnair, resigned his position in March, 1948. Macnair, then vice-chairman of the state Progressive Party, stated that he was under considerable pressure from various sources, including Burlington newspapers, at the time of his resignation...
...statement yesterday to the CRIMSON, Macnair said: "A reading of the editorials which appeared towards the end of March, 1948, in the Burlington Free Press and the Burlington Times, particularly one in the latter publication entitled 'Macnair Must Go,' will indicate clearly the existence of pressures which led me to tender my resignation to the educational authorities of the state...
...Louis one day last week glided a diesel-powered Burlington train with a cargo of bigwigs from the coal, oil and auto industries and the Department of the Interior. The big diesel was burning oil made from coal-the first time in U.S. railroading that a train has ever run on synthetic fuel...