Word: rying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting control of Atlantic last year through a holding company Mr. Fitkin promptly placed it in receivership. Atlantic has $60,000,000 in assets, more than half of which will be sold to Insull. The remaining assets are in water and ice properties and the 160-mi. Cleveland Southwestern Ry. What Mr. Insull buys from Mr. Fitkin is the electric and water service of 200 communities in 13 states, most of which are along the Atlantic seaboard. Although his new acquisitions add less than 100,000 customers to the several million he already has, the deal gives Mr. Insull...
...livestock. During the past seven years 14,000 Northwestern farmers have borrowed $7,000,000 from it. Its chairman is Clive Talbot Jaffray, who is also head of First Bank Stock Corp. In addition to banking, Mr. Jaffray is president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo") Ry., subsidiary of the C. P. R. When he attends First Bank Stock Corp. directors' meetings he is joined by five other presidents of Northwestern railroads; Ralph Budd of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern, Henry Alexander Scandrrett of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...
...they are understated if anything. Its main Montreal-Vancouver line runs 2,893.6 miles, but the 2,044 C. P. R. locomotives pull freight and passengers over 22,438 miles of track, including the 4,379 miles of the controlled Minneapolis. St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. ("Soo" Line). Much of its equipment is made in its 200 acre Angus Shops at Montreal...
...black bushy eyebrows. In 1881, with a common school education and a course in accounting, he went to work in the general offices of Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rr. (later New York Central). At the age of 24 he was made general agent for Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Ry. Ten years later he started his utility career by building the Fort Worth-Dallas interurban line, first in Texas. He has an interest in many utility companies now and one of his most important positions is the presidency of Frontier Corp., the dupont-Aluminum Co. power project...
First great test of the Commission's recapture power came in the famed case of the tiny St. Louis & O'Fallon Ry. (TIME. May 27, 1929). The Supreme Court voided the Commission's assessment against that Class II line on the ground that in fixing its valuation the Commission had not given due weight to reproduction costs at present price levels. An item might have cost a railroad $900 in 1913. The object might have been perfectly good and serviceable in 1923. But if the railroad were obliged to replace it, the railroad might have been obliged...