Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if the Central wanted to prove that it wasn't, everyone was sure that there would be the roughest, toughest, brass-knuckledest fight since the throat-cutting days of Robber Barons Fisk, Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt...
...picking up the Central." As his interests in Missouri Pacific lie with the common stockholders, he is once more using his cry of "banker domination" to good effect. If & when he gets MOP, Bob Young's master plan will have gained him what Railroad Barons Fisk and Hill tried to get-a railroad system running from coast to coast...
...Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould gave Commodore Vanderbilt his comeuppance back...
Three and a half years ago Johnson invited a group of whites to Fisk to live, eat and work for three weeks in unheard-of proximity to Negroes. It was a dangerous experiment for Nashville, but Johnson carried it off; and it has become an annual affair. Says Johnson: "People who are separated in their compartments always believe the worst of others. If you bring them together so that it doesn't violate their first defenses, they discover that the worst isn't going to happen...
...certain rooting in the South," thinks he goes as fast as he can. He knows his new job will be difficult ("Unquestionably I will have more limited mobility than a white president") but it will be worth it. Says he: "I have built a great deal of myself into Fisk...