Word: lehigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania paid Mr. Loree the $63,000.000 and received Mr. Loree's controlling stock of the Wabash and his almost-half interest in the Lehigh Valley. Mr. Loree was satisfied and the four systems finally could organize themselves, parceling out the lesser Eastern railroads somewhat after this order...
...Pennsylvania would take the Lehigh Valley, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois or Chicago & Alton, trackage rights along Lake Erie, the Norfolk & Western, use of the Virginian...
...Sweringens (now Chesapeake & Ohio) would take the Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking Valley, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette, the Erie, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, and share in the Lehigh Valley and Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...women. With these Mr. Packard puttered; he gave to the town of Warren $100,000 to build a library and, with his brother, 150 acres of land to build a park & playground. The largest of all his numerous donations was one of $1,000,000 to Lehigh University, alma mater, with which to construct and equip laboratories. Sixteen months ago illness drove James Packard to the ho pital. He stayed there sixteen months, in the same room. Then he died...
...Lehigh Valley will be divided half-&-half between the Pennsylvania and the Van Sweringen group...