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...decision three weeks ago permitting 804-mile Colorado & Southern Railway, which operates from Orin, Wyo. to Texline on the Texas border by way of Denver, to lease 902-mile Fort Worth & Denver City Railway, which runs from Dallas to Texline via Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and Amarillo. Big Burlington Lines control C. & S., which controls F. W. & D. C. Reason for the move was an estimated saving of $250,000 yearly by joint operation. But it meant the removal of F. W. & D. C.'s general offices from Fort Worth to Denver...
...special scholarship at Harvard if his name is Murphy or Baxendale; if he was descended from Lady Ann Mowlson, Greek parents or certain gentlemen named Reed, Holyoke, Hudson, Borden, Anderson, Bright, Downer, Haven and Pennoyer; if he lives along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. in Iowa; or if he was once a newsboy. He may get a scholarship at Princeton or University of Pennsylvania if his father worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tulane if his grandfather fought in the Confederate Army, at Dartmouth if he is "a religious man from Missouri...
Polo-playing William Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (private bankers). His job: liaison between Stettinius and Burlington's Ralph Budd, the commission's transportation...
...other five members were Sidney Hillman, vice-president of the C. I. O. and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Chester C. Davis, a governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Chairman Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, Leon Henderson, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission and formerly Director of Research and Planning for the N. R. A., and Harriet Elliott, Dean of the Women's College at the University of North Carolina and expert on price trends in consumer markets
George W. Bergquist, of Minneapolis, Minn., Harvard '38; Gordon F. Bloom, of Buffalo, N. Y., Buffalo '39; James MacG. Burns, of Burlington, Mass., Williams '39; Arthur A. Compton, of Chicago, Ill., Wooster, '39; Charles H. Coombs, Jr., of Brockton, Harvard '40; James George, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, University of Toronto '40; Paul G. Haaga, of Memphis, Tenn., Tennessee '37; William E. Jaqua, of Claremont, Calif., Pomona '38; Charles F. Kiefer, Jr., of New York, George Washington University '40; Arthur A. Maass, of New York, Johns Hopkins University...