Word: davin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LYNNE L. WHITE, 59, moved up from executive vice president to president of the N.Y., Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate). Groomed for the job by his predecessor and old friend, the late John W. Davin, White is an up-from-office-boy railroad veteran of 44 years, who had been vice president of three other roads before joining the Nickel Plate six months ago. In 1948, the Nickel Plate's first independent year after separation from the Chesapeake & Ohio, he helped President Davin pile up a gross of $109 million and net of $15 million, greatest...
With Steve Davin, George Hauptfuhrer, and Bill Prior providing the height necessary to control the backboards and Chip Gannon holding Jumbo scoring ace Spud Shapire to five points, the Crimson bounced back to rack up its third win in four starts after trailing 24 to 29 shortly after the start of the second half...
First Bob Young's man John W. Davin, new president of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad), told his preferred and common stockholders to expect no dividends for at least five years (they have already waited for eleven years), since all of Nickel Plate's earnings were earmarked for paying off more than $21,000,000 of debt due in 1947. Then Robert J. Bowman, the successful Young candidate for president of Pere Marquette Railway, told his equity holders that they could go begging until $40,000,000 of bonds due between...
...coronation was held in a Cleveland board room where Financier Young got three of his friends elected to important railroad jobs: lawyer-trained Carl Elbridge Newton, 44, as president of powerful and profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...