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Chesapeake & Ohio, with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate (Buffalo-Chicago-St. Louis), Erie (Jersey City-Chicago-Cincinnati) and Pere Marquette (Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago) gets 24½% of the total trackage. Instead of Lackawanna, as proposed originally by the I. C. C., it is given Lehigh Valley (New York-Buffalo) which puts its system into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. It also gets a branch of the Lackawanna to Oswego. Other C. & O. roads: Bessemer & Lake Erie, Wheeling & Lake Erie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Mighty Merger | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Included in the new acquisitions of the Society are documents bearing on the development of industry and trade of all sorts in New England and elsewhere. Of special value are several volumes of records given by officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford and of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Companies. Other documents range from personal account books and early shipping records of the port of Gloucester to shelves of files from manufacturing and retail firms in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS HISTORICAL SOCIETY GETS RECORDS | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Died. Edmund Arthur Stanley Clarke, 69, secretary since 1923 of the American Iron & Steel Institute, onetime (1904-18) president of Lackawanna Steel Co., president of Consolidated Steel Corp. (export firm for independent steel makers) until it was dissolved; of pneumonia; in Rumson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...paid an income tax of $1,575,000. The most important Baker holdings include: 87,000 shares of United States Steel, 74,000 shares of American Telephone & Tele- graph, 204,000 shares of New York Central, 6,100 Pullman, 713,000 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. Other "Bakerstocks" include American Can and National Biscuit. He has been friendly with the Van Sweringens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Last Titan | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...stockholders met in Hoboken at the grey, concrete, boxlike building of Hudson Trust Co., occupying the same stockholders'-meeting room used by International Harvester, International Mercantile Marine and many another great industry incorporated under New Jersey's convenient laws. The Steelmen ate a luncheon provided by the Lackawanna railroad, and ratified a plan submitted by Mr. Taylor providing for compulsory retirement of all Steel's executives at a certain age. Chairman Taylor, a deeply religious man (like President Hoover he is a Quaker), chose as this age the Bible's three-score years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 70 For Steel | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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