Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Federal Reserve Bank to go to Basle was elected last week President and Board Chairman of the B. I. S. As his large, well-knit body eased into the chairman's place, Mr. McGarrah cleared his throat and, with a trace of Scotch burr, sonorously announced as the first item of business that his alternate and technical advisor will be Mr. Leon Fraser, the "continuing expert" who was chief U. S. legal advisor to young Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert. Aside from the routine of getting settled at Basle last week...
...Lewis '30 will appear on the stage as leading lady with E. B. Murphy '31 taking the chief male role, and P. A. Tolman '31 and Sturtevant Burr '31 providing the comedy. These artists will be supported by three mixed choruses, one an assembly of farmers and farmerettes. H. C. Adamson '30 will give a comic specialty...
Last week George H. Burr, Manhattan banker, bought for $3,000,000 a 40% interest in the Denver & Salt Lake. "Others are interested in this deal," admitted Banker Burr. Who the "others" might be stirred much Wall Street cogitation. Arthur Curtiss James, the Lon Chancy of rail investing, was inevitably suspected of having engineered the coup...
...City. The Moffat tunnel would cut off this useless north-and-south loop. Since stock ownership of the D. R. G. W. is shared between the Western Pacific and the Missouri Pacific, these two roads have been brought within the scope of speculation as the possible buyer of Banker Burr's 20,000 shares of Denver & Salt Lake. The basis of the rumors about Arthur Curtiss James was the fact that he is Chairman of the Western Pacific, as well as being identified with the Burlington. The Moffat tunnel would link the Burlington...
...Banker Burr and his shares are not the only mystery connected with the Moffat tunnel. Begun in 1923, completed in 1928, the tunnel cost the city of Denver and certain nearby counties $15,470,000 to build. A special ventilating plant (forced draft for eastbound trains, induced draft for westbound) keeps the six-mile stretch clear of smoke. Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs...