Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheeling & Lake Erie's. controlling shares owned by John D. Rockfeller Sr. were sold to the New York Central (Patrick E. Crowley, President), the Baltimore & Ohio (Daniel Willard, President) and the Nickel Plate R. R.* (Van Sweringen brothers, owners...
Chesapeake & Ohio (controlled by the Van Sweringens and their Nickel Plate R. R.) voted $59,502,400 to buy control of the Pere Marquette (now controlled by Van Sweringens) and the Erie (now controlled by Van Sweringens with the aid of George F. Baker...
...Sweringens, foiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission at previous attempts to create the Nickel Plate System out of the Nickel Plate R. R., the C. & O., the Hocking Valley (owned by the C. & O., and so by the Van Sweringens), the Erie and the Pere Marquette, are trying a new alignment of their controlled roads. Apparent emphasis now is on the C. & O. But the Nickel Plate R. R. controls...
...shares of Pere Marquette R. R. stock, the Van Sweringen brothers increased their holdings in this road to 280,000 shares. This is 40% of the stock and gives them control of directors' meetings. More important, it obviates sharp bargaining between the Pere Marquette and the Nickel Plate System that they still propose...
...that the President's physicians had prescribed ham and eggs for breakfast instead of New England sausages. Sausages are fattening. Two days later, Senator Watson of Indiana told his friend how, at a White House breakfast, Rob Roy, Presidential white collie, had stolen half a sausage from his plate...