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...Sweringen brothers (Oris Paxton & Mantis James) last week presented a revised arrangement of their railroads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval. As in the case of the Nickel Plate System plans, disapproved last year by the I. C. C. (TIME, March 15, 1926), Henry W. Anderson and George S. Kemp of Richmond, Va., who represent Chesapeake & Ohio minority stockholders, are opposing the Van Sweringens now. Hearings may last a year?as they did in the Nickel Plate System case...
Vaness Co. controls Nickel Plate...
...been closely bound in the affairs of this great branch of commerce. Down through the close of the century and on into the present decade roars the industry, and the latest exploits we hear of in connection with it are the affairs of the Van Sweringen brothers and their Nickel Plate Railway, and the remarkable way in which Commodore Arthur Curtiss James accumulated for himself such a tremendous control of the major roads of the country...
...cold chocolate bars and ice cream makers throughout the U. S. sought license to manufacture Eskimo Pie. For every dozen of these pies they made-and at the height of Eskimo Pie popularity 2,000,000 were sold daily-they paid Russell Stover and Christian K. Nelson a nickel. These men grew rich-income $1,000,000 yearly. Then the U. S. Foil Co. which manufactures wrappings for can- dies and small articles, bought control of their company and they became contented security holders in the now $25,000,000 corporation...
...school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...