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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recuperating from an appendectomy at the age of 19, Linnea Fransson of East Orange, N. J. was told by the doctor to eat what she liked. What she liked was candy, lemonade, ginger ale. She ate nothing else. She left business school, retreated to her home, sucked lollipops to her heart's content. When she began suffering from starvation, doctors at Orange Memorial Hospital tried in vain to give Linnea tube feedings and intravenous injections. For a while they persuaded her to eat an apple a day, and half a teaspoonful of raw, grated vegetables. But anything besides...
...Reliable" has never been in receivership, has passed only one dividend on its common stock (1933) in the past 40 years. "Old Reliable's" president is peak-nosed, Cumberland Mountain-born James Brents Hill. Like his predecessors, he likes to keep his employes on the job in L. & N.'s constant drive for courteous, economical operation, sends out frequent "President's messages" to every worker on L. & N.'s 5,000 miles of track...
Last month President's Message No. 51 laid facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
...Hill's 1938 salary ($51,777), it could be calculated that the road has to haul 6,472,125 tons of average freight a mile. Considering the fact that L. & N. has made money year after year while most other Class I roads are in the soup, he is doubtless worth...
...N.'s capitalization: 65% bonds, no preferred, 35% common stock. Its ratio of fixed charges to operating revenues in 1938: 12%; average ratio for all Class I roads...