Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaving behind him in a meeting room Presidents William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania, Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central, Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and John J. Bernet of the Erie, together with M. J. & O. P. Van Sweringen of the Chesapeake & Ohio (old Nickel Plate) group. They all, with the aid of lesser officials who were also present, had been discussing the consolidation of the railroads that operate between the Atlantic and the Mississippi, and north of the Ohio-the Eastern roads. For four years there have been such discussions and since last October...
There are three leading candidates for the position behind the home plate. W. W. Lord '28, who played both in the field and on first base last spring, seems to have a very slight edge over his rivals, E. J. Steptoe '29 and D. P. Donaldson '28. Steptoe and Donaldson are both catchers of considerable experience, and although neither of them has been a regular on the University nine, they are perfectly capable of developing into first rate backstops...
...Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen merger group (once planned to be based on the Nickel Plate, now planned to be based on the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar's position in U. S. industry...
Died. Charles William Brown, 70, president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass...