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...Nowhere. On a balance-sheet basis, M. & St. L.'s bondholders got mostly a $53.000,000 deficit (the water logged stockholders were washed out com pletely). But for the future they got all the stock (150,000 shares) in an almost debt-free road. And they got Lucian Charles Sprague, M. & St. L.'s receiver for eight years, as president...
...When Lucian Sprague took over the broken-down M. & St. L. in 1935, his desk was strewn with $424,000 in current bills, a $254,000 payroll was due in two weeks, $46,000,000 worth of bonds had been in default since 1922-and there was only $103,000 in the bank. He had to sell some of his battered boxcars for scrap to get enough cash to repair his rotten rails. But he got every discouraged M. & St. L. employe to help him sell people on "The Peoria Gateway," amazed potential customers by helping them sell their...
...three major generals commanding infantry divisions, the best known is Terry de la Mesa Allen, leader of the 1st, only division in the Seventh Army that fought the Germans and Italians before Sicily. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. of the 3rd Infantry is a hell-roaring cavalryman, tall, lean, wiry. He developed U.S. Ranger tactics in England, accompanied a unit of Canadian Commandos on the bloody Dieppe Raid...
...Wide Advance. Such was the fighting for Gela and its beaches, the fighting which made the rest of the U.S. invasion possible. On the ist Division's left flank, 48-year-old, Texas-born Major General Lucian K. Truscott's 3rd Infantry Division seized Licata and its neighboring airfields, then expanded its position westward and inland to take Canicatti and seize the old walled port of Agrigento and its innumerable, well-placed gun positions...
Nearest to Foss's record are his fellow Guadalcanal Marine flyers, Major John Lucian Smith (19) and Captain Marion B. Carl (16), but Foss still has not equaled the 26-plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock...