Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Charles Eugene Johnston, 46, hitherto vice president and general manager, to be president of the Kansas City Southern Railway; to succeed Job Adolphus Edson, president for 22 of his 60 years in railroading. Leonor Dresnel Loree seeks to unite the K. C. S. R. with the St. Louis-Southwestern and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as a southwestern railroad system (TIME...
Died. Charles M. Kittle, 47, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Chicago. He worked his way from section gang water boy to senior vice president of Illinois Central Railroad from which he resigned to rule the great mail order company...
Some two thousand learned men assembled in Washington, discussed the family, advertising, religion, voting, marketing, business-at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, of Princeton, Poland's financial savior, warn that it is time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale...
...drink it with the caffein in it. These people, together with the non-coffee drinkers, including children, constitute a tremendous market for a caffein-free coffee." President George Gund of the Kaffee Hag Corp. will continue to manage its Cleveland factory. Furniture & Furnishings. If a hotel, restaurant, hospital, school, railroad or ship requires furnishings, the source of supply usually first thought of is Albert Pick, Barth Inc., largest company of its kind. Last week it became larger by absorbing seven companies that manufacture wooden or sheet metal furniture and sell the pieces through chains of retail furniture stores...
Erie R.R. With a pang stockholders in the Erie railroad last week learned that the company had incurred a deficit of $201,683 on its November business. They recalled the previous November 1926, when the month's surplus had been $2,248,113 - 11 times the deficit...