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...Jones, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield, Le Pere Goriot, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace...
...favored a tough, out & out revolutionary line. Duclos saw the handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from any inhibitions it might have in attacking the Marshall Plan...
High Ball. Railroader Robert R. Young's plan for merging the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., which has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, was put into effect last week. The Pere Marquette, whose main lines are in Michigan, will hereafter be known as the C. & O. The new railroad system will have 5,000 miles of main-line track, be the seventh biggest in the U.S. in operating revenues...
Otherwise, scrappy Bob Young was riding high. The day after the Pullman decision, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved his plan to merge the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the C. & O. The C. & O. has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, but, by integrating them, Young hoped to strengthen both, effect operating economies...
...years, Bob Young had become the most-talked-about railroadman in the U.S. Consequently, people took stock-quite literally-in what he intended to do. He had already put together a railroad kingdom out of the roads which Alleghany Corp. controlled: the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette and its stock interests (in ten other roads). Now he was after an empire. The New York Central would be its keystone...