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...Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration and Co-operation will enable us to make Arkansas and this section of the Southwest the most self-sustaining, the most prosperous part...
Because he saw a bright future for rail traffic in the "golden triangle" of his part of the Southwest, Railman Couch last week purchased working control of Kansas City Southern Ry. from Paine, Webber & Co. The Manhattan brokers would reveal no details of the deal, but a good guess was that Senator Joe Robinson's good friend Harvey Couch and his associates paid up to $2,250,000 for the stock once held by the Brothers Van Sweringen...
...torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town. Electric generating plants by the river faltered, then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into darkness. All police were put on 24-hr, duty and companies of National Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising...
...Board were stocks selling for less than $10 per share. Churned in volume lately have been such "penny" favorites as International Paper & Power Class C ($6.50), Elk Horn Coal preferred ($5.50), General Realty & Utilities ($4.50), Alleghany Corp. ($4.50), Commonwealth & Southern ($3.50), Pierce Petroleum ($2.75), Seaboard Air Line Ry. ($1.75), Consolidated Textile...
Last week they found him in the person of Herbert Fitzpatrick, vice-president & general counsel of Chesapeake & Ohio Ry...