Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheer coincidence, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week modified railroad freight rates on "horses, mules, burros and asses in carload lots" in the western trunkline territory...
...Then we went in to dinner and I was seated with Otto Kahn and with E. E. Loomis of the Morgan Co.? Mr. Kahn brought up the subject of . . . railroad valuation. He said to me, 'Your plan will not work'. . . . And that ended the conversation with Mr. Kahn...
...Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities...
Liquidate Mr. Lamont tomorrow, and many an achievement of his 18 years with Morgan would have a historic value. To him came the financing of the New York Central Railroad and he is today the firm's chief railroad adviser. To him came most of the overseas muddles into which its vast foreign interests plunged the Morgan house. In China (the Consortium), Mexico (International Committee), France (Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan), Austria (1923 joint loan), he has been at one time or another the most important financial factor. When these and many another nation gather together, as at Versailles...
Surviving settlers of Dodge City, Kan., met there last week in a "Last Roundup." Hoar and weazened pioneers spun yarns of the bad days, recalled the town's early importance as shipping point for buffalo hide, as "payoff centre" after the Santa Fe railroad went through (1872). A parade was held with a covered wagon, stage coach, "buffalo bones" float (displaying a famed pioneer commodity), oldtime "soddie...