Word: peres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus the year after stepping into C. & O., they joined with bushy-whiskered old George F. Baker, chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, to buy control of the Erie. Wanting outlets for the coal shipped over the C. & O. they bought into Pere Marquette (which served the industrial part of Michigan...
Pictures every child should know are in the series of oblong French story books which Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard's father, illustrated nearly 50 years ago. The late Senator William Andrews Clark knew them well and commissioned Boutet de Monvel pere to do a long mural panel of Joan of Arc which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours...
...their September results. Their figures fully equalled the hopeful expectations stirred by the steady rise in September carloadings. Total net operating income was $49,533,000, only 7.2% below last year. Thirty-four roads, including the New York Central, St. Paul, Western Pacific, Louisville & Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line, Southern, Pere Marquette and Central of New Jersey, had better operating incomes than a year ago. For the first nine months of 1932 the 73 roads made 48.4% less than in 1931. The extreme low was in July when returns were only one-fifth of 1931's figure. Last week...
...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...