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Window trimmers, decorating showrooms last week for the Cadillac Spring Salon, teetered around a new motorcar. Salesmen studied its points: plenty of nickel plate; narrow, high radiator; low, elliptical lines; 8-cylinder, V-type motor; 125-in. wheelbase; six body types- roadster, phaeton, coupé, convertible coupé, victoria and sedan. It looked like a Cadillac slightly reduced in size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers...
...Nickel R. R. (controlled by the Van Sweringens) was quiescent...
...Sweringens, foiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission at previous attempts to create the Nickel Plate System out of the Nickel Plate R. R., the C. & O., the Hocking Valley (owned by the C. & O., and so by the Van Sweringens), the Erie and the Pere Marquette, are trying a new alignment of their controlled roads. Apparent emphasis now is on the C. & O. But the Nickel Plate R. R. controls...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...Full name: New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. This is but one factor of the Van Sweringen's Nickel Plate System...