Word: fresnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson...
...Great Northern R. R. ordered 14 locomotives. The Boston & Maine R. R. placed in operation five superpower $100,000 locomotives, ordered 1,500 freight cars. The New York Central R. R. ordered 42 electric locomotives for handling freight to cost over $100,000 each. Leonor Fresnel Loree ("Little Giant") announced that his Delaware & Hudson R. R. was constructing a $125,000 locomotive to have 14% working efficiency compared to the present 7%. Steam pressure in this engine will be the highest yet obtained...
...Delaware & Hudson, a railroad only 884 miles long, has been said to run from "nowhere to nowhere." This jibe does injustice to Wilkes-Barre and Montreal, but nevertheless it had point last week when D. & H.'s shaggy bearded chief, Leonor Fresnel Loree, popped out with a proposal that the D. & H. should be given practically all the railroads of New England and a long list of others, six of which are bigger and longer than the nowhere-to-nowhere...
...carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president, in place of Van-man William McKinley Duncan, and threw out all the Vanmen directors, including Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life's new president. Director Leonor Fresnel Loree, head of Delaware & Hudson, was also dispossessed...
...Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel Loree entered it by control of the Delaware & Hudson and the Wabash, by buying near control of the Lehigh Valley and by getting an option (lapsed in the event) on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh...