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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clear Track for the Santa Fe...
...quarter, President Alfred Perlman turned in earnings of $11,813,010, compared with a deficit of $473,788 a year ago. Then Young announced a "regular" dividend of 50? a share, the same amount the road paid in January. Other less embattled railroads showed equally good profits. The Santa Fe earned $15,958,209 in the first quarter, v. $12,495,551 last year; in the same period the Pennsylvania earned $7,112,005 v. a deficit...
MARY ROSE BRADFORD Santa Fe...
...Santa Fe, going against the trend to low-slung equipment, ordered from Budd 47 "Hi-Level" passenger cars for its transcontinental El Capitan. The road, which has been experimenting with two of the cars for a year, is so pleased with the results that El Capitan will be completely equipped with them by mid-1956. Included in the total: 35 all-chair cars, seating 67 passengers apiece, six diners, six dome lounge cars. While the height (15 ft. 6 in.) will cut speed on the bends, Santa Fe feels that on long-distance runs that drawback is offset by less...
Argentina's Minister of Interior summoned newsmen to his office last week and officially confirmed a red-hot rumor. It was true, said Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, that the government of President Juan Perón had "intervened," i.e., taken over the governments of the provinces of Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman. Perón had summarily dismissed the governors, legislatures and all municipal authorities in the three provinces, and appointed three "interventors" with dictatorial powers, including authority to supervise the provincial courts...