Word: pere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Van Sweringen propose a major consolidation of their Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette...
Chesapeake & Ohio, with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate (Buffalo-Chicago-St. Louis), Erie (Jersey City-Chicago-Cincinnati) and Pere Marquette (Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago) gets 24½% of the total trackage. Instead of Lackawanna, as proposed originally by the I. C. C., it is given Lehigh Valley (New York-Buffalo) which puts its system into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. It also gets a branch of the Lackawanna to Oswego. Other C. & O. roads: Bessemer & Lake Erie, Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...seen. But a lot of people know him for an able troubleshooter. He railroaded for 27 years in Mexico, serving eleven years as president of National Railways of Mexico. In 1914 when Mexico's revolutionary atmosphere became impossibly hot, he resigned, going two years later to the chair of Pere Marquette, then called "Poor Marquette." His rehabilitation job there was so good that the Frisco, run down physically and financially, called him in 1919. Again he did a good job. A few years ago the road was running practically without him. But lately Chairman Brown has been back...
...reports indicate that they will not make their fixed charges for 1931: Bessemer & Lake Erie; Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Colorado & Southern; Elgin, Joliet & Eastern; Illinois Central; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; Mobile & Ohio; Pere Marquette; St. Louis Southwestern; Southern; Wabash; Western Pacific...
...broke out. After long and useless attempts to make him into a cavalryman, he seems to have had a pretty good time as a staff officer in Petrograd and Siberia. He got along well with generals, and his poly-glottism came in handy. When the Russian Revolution ruined Gerhardi pere, the family stayed hard up for years; William went through Oxford on £1000. his demobilization bonus. There he looked about him with a quietly superior eye and wrote most of his first book, Futility, which, it was hoped, would retrieve the family fortunes. It was at Oxford that Gerhardi...