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...Farrington, who had made the road flourish, president. He had rebuilt its rickety trackage, spent $100 million for new equipment and other improvements, and sent 20 streamlined Rock Island "Rockets" flashing over its new, heavy-ballast rails. The war boom which helped all railroads had mightily helped the Rock Island. During the last seven years its net profits were more than $80 million...
...that they came late to catch them. But they hardly expected to see, even on the eccentric Rock Island, the automobile, equipped with railroad wheels, that came down the track one day in 1936. In it was a man who looked like Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was John Dow Farrington, 56. A railroader since 18, he had just been hired away from the Burlington Lines to pull the rocky Rock Island together. And he spent most of his first six months riding its 7,650 miles of track (much of it in his auto train) to find out what...
Last week, Farrington showed that he had run it well. The Rock Island came out of bankruptcy. As the first order of business, the new board of directors named
...which will reawaken in the U.S. Senate something of the same uneasiness aroused by the Massie affair. Hawaii is knocking at the nation's door. After almost half a century of territorial status, she wants to be admitted as the 49th state. Her aggressive spokesman is Joseph Farrington, an influential publisher, son of an immigrant from the mainland, and Hawaii's Delegate to the U.S. Congress...
...same reasons some of them take a very dubious view of statehood's energetic champion, Delegate Joseph Farrington...