Word: paso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negotiations are well under way for a merger between the Southern Pacific and the El Paso and Southwestern. The acquisition of this road will give the Southern Pacific a new outlet into Mexico. It will also connect the Southern Pacific directly with Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. Following the El Paso merger, the next step naturally will be a merger with the Rock Island. That would give the Southern Pacific a direct line into Chicago, what it has always desired...
...Another reason why the Southern Pacific wants to go through with this merger [with the El Paso and Southwestern] is because it is now competing with railroads that have a through line to the Great Lakes and Middle-Western cities to the Pacific Coast. We, too, want to be able to say that our lines extend to Chicago from San Francisco, and this merger and a possible merger with the Rock Island system will make it possible for us to say that...
...Cummins, ex-British Chargé des Archives, arrived in El Paso, Texas, from Mexico after having been forced to leave that country by President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 23, et seq.). Commenting upon the treatment meted out by the Mexicans, Mr. Cummins said...
...most surprising merger suggested has been the acquisition of various branch roads by the formerly disrupted but now promising Missouri Pacific. Now Southern Pacific enters the lists with a proposal to acquire the El Paso & Southwestern, and hints that it will next try to obtain the Rock Island system...
...Another witness had declared that Mr. Chase had tried to induce a Cleveland man to say he had lent Mr. Fall the now notorious $100,000. The Senate unanimously passed a resolution, suggesting that the House start impeachment proceedings against Chase, who is Collector of Customs at El Paso. Chase submitted his resignation to Secretary Mellon who accepted it on the following...