Word: southwesterner
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...Willard its Emperor and Baltimore its capital. The B. & O. runs west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York it has no trackage; it must operate over the lines of the Reading...
...entry of Campaigner Hughes and he was second on the list in the effort to save Missouri. He arrived from Texas, where he had talked about Tammany and Prohibition, and made an automobile tour of the lead and zinc mining section near Joplin in the southwestern corner of the State. Prohibition and Prosperity were the subjects of his Joplin speech, but he also took occasion to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning his principles to support Nominee Hoover. Said...
...Simultaneously in the Southwest he was trying to consolidate the Kansas City SDuthern, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and St. Louis Southwestern. There, too, he has been thwarted, not yet necessarily vanquished...
Railroads. After two years effort to overcome opposition against his merging the Kansas-City Southern and Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroads, Leonor Fresnel Loree last week formally abandoned his project. Missouri-Kansas-Texas still controls the St. Louis Southwestern, the third component of the proposed merger...
...time and by making no objections the I. C. C. seemed to approve his southwestern unification plans. In 1925 they approved his being a director of both the K. C. Southern and Katy. He owned large blocks of stock in both roads (as did his bankers Kuhn, Loeb & Co.). He acted as chairman of both roads...