Word: couches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprawling Missouri Pacific. Hard times quashed that idea. In 1931 Chicago Great Western got control of K.C.S. But litigation, instituted by Railroader Loree, kept the pair apart. Last week, Kansas City Southern once more was on the verge of matrimony-this time proposed by its Board Chairman Harvey Crowley Couch...
...onetime (1932-34) RFC director who organized Arkansas's first telephone sys tem, strapping, 61-year-old Harvey Couch is Arkansas's wealthiest private citizen, and the Southwest's No. 1 private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch...
...merger, subject to ICC and stockholders' approval, will give K.C.S. complete possession of the shortest route between Kansas City and New Orleans (it now shares it with L.& A.), will also link Louisiana Gulf ports with eastern Texas. Said Harvey Couch: "A substantial increase in payrolls may be expected to result from increased business of the unified roads...
Centers: William M. Couch, Jr., Arthur T. Lyman, Jr., Richard L. Mills, John J. O'Neill, Lewis N. Sandler, John D. Phillipsborn...
William Morris Couch, Jr., Platte City, Missouri--Kansas City Junior College, Kansas City, Missouri...