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This week a new president takes over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...
...next great problem was to haul the harvest. Could the railroads do it? Usually the Santa Fe, largest U.S. wheat carrier, spots 10,000 wheat cars at key junction points for the harvest. But last week the Santa Fe, which owns 35,000 boxcars, could spare only 889. All other cars were carrying high-priority freight up & down the nation...
Beset by its own labor shortages, the Santa Fe desperately sent whistling freights shuttling back & forth across the dusty prairies. At Enid, Okla., lean, hard-driving Foreman Tom Ingles set a goal of switching a car a minute, and made...
...unhappy railroads figure that Government rebates are costing them $20 million a month, that they have forfeited more than $600 million since the first land grant act was passed. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which has netted a total of $23 million from land-grant sales, returned $40 million in lower freight rates to the Government in 1943 alone. Last week railroaders breathed a hopeful sigh as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee reported out the Boren bill. Based on the premise that the roads have now repaid their subsidy in full, it would...
...Brett, artist, writer, former British peeress, sister of the White Rani of Sarawak (British Borneo), bosom friend of the late British novelist, D. H. Lawrence. This week Painter Brett proved that she could paint Conductor Stokowski whether he posed or not. Her exhibition of 27 paintings in the Santa Fe Museum featured some bombers in level flight, some portraits, but mostly her platinum-haired Leopold Stokowski in a "Symphony Series" for which he never...