Word: harvey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Richard Lindenfelser, who has been forced to take his share of setbacks in this season. Louis Ach and Eddy Pettrenik are battling for the 126 pound berth, and the winner will have to face Mcknight Kinne, an Eli who has lost only to Eastern Champion Ashma of Leigh. Harvey Ross, a former Milton captain who piled up an undefeated record as a Freshman, will be in there in the 118 pound class against Mallin of Yale...
...golden triangle" of his part of the Southwest, Railman Couch last week purchased working control of Kansas City Southern Ry. from Paine, Webber & Co. The Manhattan brokers would reveal no details of the deal, but a good guess was that Senator Joe Robinson's good friend Harvey Couch and his associates paid up to $2,250,000 for the stock once held by the Brothers Van Sweringen...
...Harvey Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. has only one dining car, the K.C.S. but three. Assets of the two roads foot up in about the same ratio - $36,500,000: $136,000,000 - and dining car and passenger revenues mean little to either. Running from New Orleans to Shreveport, La. and Hope, Ark. with an affiliate branching to Dallas, Tex. the L. & A. carries mostly quarry products, refined oils and sugar...
Preliminary 1936 earnings figures showed a net profit of $580,000 for the K.C.S., comparing with a deficit of $955,000 in 1935. The L. & A. showed a $334,000 profit last year, comparing with $428,000 the year before. What the deal last week meant was that Harvey Couch's ideas on co-operation would be applied to freight operations, especially since the two roads together would have the most direct route between New Orleans and Kansas City by way of Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Texarkana and Joplin...
Another step in what may be Harvey Couch's plan for a Southwestern rail empire was a new application to the Interstate Commerce Commission early this month in which the L. & A. sought permission to buy the Rock Island, Arkansas & Louisiana R. R. First proposed last summer, this acquisition would connect the L. & A. with Little Rock, Arkansas' first city...