Word: seaboarders
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...claimed it bought into these roads for defensive purposes in 1927 when eastern trunk lines were scrambling to enlarge their systems. Under the Commission's merger plan the Wabash and Lehigh Valley would be joined in a separate system combining the Wheeling & Lake Erie, Ann Arbor, Norfolk & Western, Seaboard Air Line. Western Maryland, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...Sick Seaboard. Early this year was consummated a re-organization of Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., whose 4,500 mi. of track stretch north and south between Richmond and Miami, west between Wilmington and Birmingham. A feature of the re-organization was that it provided the road with $20,000,000 new working capital. But business depression has cut Seaboard's net in the first nine months of 1930 to $4,527,000 against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2¼. Last week the j railroad...
California Catholics revere him for maintaining the firm status of their church during a period when Protestant fundamentalists have poured into the state from the midwest prairies, and the irreligious from the Atlantic seaboard...
...consideration of the various candidates in the Massachusetts senatorial election Whether Mr. Eben S. Draper's decision to withdraw his support from William Butler, Republican nominee, springs from political spite or not, it at least adds weight to the growing anti prohibition sentiment along the North Atlantic seaboard. In New York, former Attorney General Tuffle has been nominated by the Republicans to run for governor on a repeal platform, while Democratic Governor Roosevelt has finally felt that wet sentiment was more than strong enough among is constituents to allow him to come out flatly for the repeal of the 18th...
...significance was the annual revival of the oyster business, starting last week. But of great significance was a 6,000-ton steamer, slowly going down the Atlantic seaboard. She was the Frango, first ship of the new American Whaling Co. Aboard her are 69 oldtime Norwegian whalers. In charge of the expedition is Captain Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag...