Word: rying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernest Eden Norris, having retired as receiver of Mobile & Ohio R. R., was made operating vice president and a director of the parent Southern Ry...
...mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey City and at dawn the sleeping President was rolling through Washington, on across the Potomac and down a Southern Ry. branch line to the Virginia town of Harrisonburg. There, after breakfast, he detrained, climbed into an open car with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and set out to have his first look at some Civilian Conservation Corps camps...
...More than once the target of bear raids, Chicago & North Western Ry. was reported one day last week to be contemplating bankruptcy. The stock tumbled from $8.75 a share to $3.50. Within a few hours the reports were denied, the stock snapped back to $7.50. The New York Stock Exchange promptly started an investigation. But there was real ammunition for bearish rail operators in the fact that Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific did slip into bankruptcy, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe cut its preferred dividend from $5 to $3, first reduction since 1901. Bullish operators joked about Baltimore & Ohio...
Chamberlain, S. Dak. is a prairie town, pop. 1,300, with a grain elevator and lumberyard. The C. M. St. P. & P. Ry. crosses the muddy Missouri River there. The tiny town contains an Indian School, a hospital, four doctors...