Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pastor Hall began his telephone ministry when someone dialed him by mistake. It has been spread by: 1) word-of-mouth recommendation; 2) practical jokers who leave messages for their friends to call his number. Even the latter sometimes get so interested that when the operator asks for another nickel, they put it in. For those others who get mad and tell him to go to the devil, Pastor Hall has a ready reply: "I can't go with you, I'm going the other...
...board room where Financier Young got three of his friends elected to important railroad jobs: lawyer-trained Carl Elbridge Newton, 44, as president of powerful and profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...
...Future. As boss of the C. & O.-Nickel Plate-Pere Marquette-Wheeling combination, Bob Young has plenty of plans for the future. First on the list is his No. 1 belief: drastic debt reduction as the best way to keep a railroad on the tracks during the next depression. A man who practices what he preaches, Bob Young has slashed Nickel Plate's debt $25,200,000 in the past two years, hopes to cut it another $10,000,000 next year. Meanwhile he has put most of C. & O.'s debt on a sinking-fund basis, hiked...
After debts are scaled down still further Young wants to push consolidation, figures his four roads "go together naturally." But before any consolidation can be made, at least two big problems must be solved: 1) how to wipe out $25,000,000 back dividends on Nickel Plate preferred; 2) what to do with $70,000,000 Alleghany Corp. funded debt...
...aplenty during the fierce competition of the early '20s, but Tilt pulled through by reinforcing his dealer setup, pioneering high-speed trucks, heavy-duty engines, full-floating axles, other engineering improvements. Always a bug on style and comfort, Art snagged many a sale with cosy, heated, cabs, flashy nickel radiators, etc. And Diamond T broadened its line, in 1940 had 40 models ranging from one-ton panel deliveries to giant 15-tonners...