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These opinions are fairly representative of the attitude of most railway executives. In their robustness the opinions are especially Kruttsehnittian. For Kruttschnitt is a man of the self-made type. He was the son of a New Orleans merchant ruined by the Civil War. Nevertheless he had a college education, at Washington and Lee University. His first railroad job was as an engineer building part of the line which is now the eastern end of the Southern Pacific. Today he is Chairman of the Road with a salary of $100,000 a year, ranking with Alfred H. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eggs, Kruttschnitt | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

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