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...some 500 U. S. short lines (leftovers of the railroad consolidation era), none has shown a tougher and more independent spirit than A. & R. It was born 48 years ago when a burly Scot named John Blue laid the rails to get his lumber, turpentine and rosin to town. Today it originates 35% of its freight traffic, gets the rest through strategic connections with the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern and Cape Fear roads. Some 20% of its freight revenue comes from petroleum; the rest is fertilizer, coal, farm produce, and material for Fort Bragg (20% of non-originated...
Unlike many a bigger road, A. & R. is no stranger to net profits. Only once has it failed to show a profit in the last 20 years. Never has it failed to pay preferred dividends and bond interest ($8,949). For this rare railroading record, natives credit the canny Scot management of the sons of old John Blue, gaunt, black-haired, bushy-browed President William Alexander Blue, 59; small, emaciated Vice President Halbert Johnston Blue, 44, and Secretary-Treasurer Henry McCoy Blue...
...Navy becomes mistress of the seas, the new ruler will have a 165-year-old tradition to look back on. That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary is full of brilliant minds. One of them is Dr. James Moffatt, tall, thin, shy, 60-year-old Scot. Officially retired, Dr. Moffatt still teaches a course in church history. A scholar of many interests, he has written as many as five books a year; his specialty is the Bible. The Moffatt Translation, like the recent Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible, is much more colloquial than the Revised Version of 1901, now being re-revised by a committee Under Dr. Moffatt. Last week this Presbyterian pundit had a new job: program consultant for a commercial...
...stock their man's first showcase, the British Government requisitioned outright all British holdings in 60 U. S. stocks. To His Majesty's subjects His Majesty's Government will pay the market price of their securities as of Feb. 17 in sterling. As Scot Gifford sells them here, the British Government will pocket its dollars for future U. S. material purchases, will thus have added to its present hoard of $2,600,000,000 in liquid gold and dollars. On Solicitor Gifford's first list were equities in plenty of profitable U. S. industries -Du Pont...