Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading trunk-line railroads into New York have been going on. They have been held alternately in the headquarters of the Pnnsylvania and the New York Central, and besides the representatives of those roads, officials of the B. & O. and the Van Sweringens, heads of the new "Nickel Plate" merger, have attended. The inclusion of the latter, incidentally, proves that they have "arrived" in the railroad sense...
...Erie and has for some time been steering the road into more peaceful and prosperous years. Last week the "Van Sweringen se- curities" were active on the Stock Exchange. Rumors abounded. Ap- parently the time is almost here when the astonishing realtors from Cleveland will put together the "Nickel Plate System" as one of this country's greatest railroad mergers. The system will include Nickel Plate, Erie, Clover Leaf, Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio, and the coming consolidation will necessitate a complex exchange of securities, details of which are probably not alto- gether settled in even the Van Sweringens...
Continued rumors in Wall Street and elsewhere concerning the Van Sweringen brothers and their plans for consolidating railroads were confirmed when it was announced that their leading road, the "Nickel Plate" (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis), had virtually acquired control of the Erie. The growth of the new Van Sweringen system, which has not yet reached its end, began by important consolidations under the Nickel Plate. Last February, Nickel Plate assumed control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. In the late Winter and Spring, the heavy buying of Erie on the Stock Exchange occasioned much comment. Evidently much...
This new "Nickel Plate system" which has grown up so rapidly, will extend from the Atlantic seaboard ports of New York, Newport News and Norfolk, to such important inland centers as Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Charleston and Lynchburg...
...mark what is done amiss; or else a grim king on a throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to our shame, this!) a celestial treasurer, an expert accountant, with a keen eye on the subscription list and collection plate. And when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded and conquered country. And they think that we mean by religion a daily dozen...