Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Dispatch appeared this advertisement: "Anyone interested in adopting a baby at birth around October ist. write Box 497, care Ledger-Dispatch...
Pennsylvania, with 31½% of the area's total trackage, pushes out to Kansas City and Omaha, gets a new Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago-St. Louis link with Wabash. With Norfolk & Western it taps the Pocahontas coal fields, gains a new port to the South. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton forms a useful North-South connection for its main stems...
...York Central will have 23.7% of the trackage. To it is assigned Lackawanna (Jersey City-Buffalo) as a subsidiary outlet to the Lakes. It also gets Virginian (Norfolk-Charleston, W. Va.) with its tidewater terminal, its access to Southern coal fields. Rutland affords an auxiliary connection to Canada...
...Lackawanna, in the same system, would compete against Erie and Lehigh Valley in another system. Four-way system competition would be preserved at such important centres as Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Only the B. & O. would fail to get into Norfolk. No important city which now has competition between two railroads would get less under the merger plan...
...years Pennsylvania has been engaged to Norfolk &-Western. The I. C. C. is now ready for a formal marriage. Likewise B. & O. has become the principal proprietor, with New York Central, of Reading and Jersey Central. The I. C. C. now approves their acquisition in name as well as fact...