Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wabash Railroad will go bodily into the Baltimore & Ohio System...
...list of Chairman Storey's committeemen is formidable: Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Patrick Edward Crowley for the New York Central; Charles Donnelly for the Northern Pacific; Laurence Aloysius Downs for the Illinois Central; Carl Raymond Gray for the Union Pacific; Edward Jones Pearson for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Bird M. Robinson for the American Short Lines Association...
...contract between the American Railway Express and the railroads for hauling express expires in February 1929. At that time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great...
Married. Henry A. Scrandrett, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad; to Mrs. Frances Hochstetler Daugherty, of Omaha, Nebr.; in Omaha...
Elected. Thomas Nelson Perkins, director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, president of the Harvard Alumni Association; to be chairman of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He succeeds Homer Loring, who resigned...