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Railroads. The Van Sweringen brothers gained control of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway, on which Leonor Fresnel Loree (trying to make a fifth eastern railroad system) for a time had an option...
Before Leonor Fresnel Loree last spring was forced to abandon his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
Railroads. After two years effort to overcome opposition against his merging the Kansas-City Southern and Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroads, Leonor Fresnel Loree last week formally abandoned his project. Missouri-Kansas-Texas still controls the St. Louis Southwestern, the third component of the proposed merger...
...Interstate Commerce Commission rebuffed Leonor Fresnel Loree last week. Among his many railroad activities has been his attempted merging of the Kansas City Southern, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) and St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt") railroads...