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...seemed as if the only friend the hapless suburban commuter had last week was a bold, brainy lawyer who started in the railroad business a mere four years ago. The man: Ben Walter Heineman, 44, chairman of the 9,096-mile Chicago & North Western Railway, which inaugurated a new commuter plan that could well,serve as a guide to troubled roads across the U.S. They sorely needed help. Last week the Lehigh Valley Railroad moaned that it was going broke from its $4,000-$5,000,000-a-year passenger deficit in commuter-heavy New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
Huggins, 55, a railway electrician of Chattanooga, had long suffered from hemorrhoids, eventually agreed to have them removed on Sept. 3 by Dr. Charles Jackson Ray in Chattanooga's Memorial Hospital, a Roman Catholic institution run by the Nazareth Literary and Benevolent Institute. Huggins was admitted the day before. So was Bill Slater, scheduled to undergo operation by Dr. Joseph W. Graves for correction of a hernia and removal of a diseased left testicle. In the morning, each patient got preliminary anesthetic, and was trundled off to the operating rooms. One room was reserved...
Last week another merger was well past the talk stage. The Norfolk & Western and the Virginian Railway, which share the profitable soft-coal Pocahontas region with the Chesapeake & Ohio, announced that they had started studies for a merger that would add "strength to strength." Both lines are efficient operators but could profit by merging. Their merger would create a new system having 2,695 miles of main track in the South and combined assets of more than $900 million...
RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...
...good many hard knocks from the outside: the one-two punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...