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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...
Died. Frederick Henry Harvey, 41, vice president of the famed Western Harvey railway restaurant chain and dining car service (for the Santa Fe) founded by his late grandfather; at Johnstown, Pa., when the airplane which he was piloting bashed through electric powder lines, burst into flames, burned him & his wife to death...
Fact was, the railroads were not only incapable of much new building but in many cases found it impossible to finish what they had started before Depression. Last week, when Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's hefty President Samuel Thomas Bledsoe announced the biggest single track-laying job planned by any U. S. railroad in years, his announcement promised no new episode in the railroad epic but a return to polish off one of those left unfinished...
...Santa Fe's new track will run in miles between Boise City, Okla. and Las Animas, Colo. At an estimated cost of $3,750,000, it will complete a 232-mile line between Las Animas and Amarillo, Tex. which was originally approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1930 and completed as far as Boise City- 121 miles-in 1931. Thus after five years the Santa Fe will soon succeed in connecting Denver with western Texas by a direct route saving as much as 226 miles on traffic north & south...
...After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas City; by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to Pasadena, Calif. There in Caltech's laboratories, where a huge grinding machine has been set up, it will spend some three years acquiring the ideal paraboloid curve in its face. Some time before 1940 it will be installed in its telescope on Palomar Mountain in Southern California...