Word: southwesterners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together with the Western Union Telegraph Co. He bought arid sold and sometimes he ruined, but he always profited. After a time, he turned to more constructive practice, planned a great ocean-to-ocean railroad system- the Western Maryland, the Wabash, the St. Louis Southwestern...
...family has spread, but hardly aggrandized itself. All but one of the railroads controlled by Jay has slipped from their grasp. Last week, Edwin, second son of the great Jay, let it be known that even that had gone- control of the St. Louis Southwestern was sold to the Rock Island...
With the passing of the "Cotton Belt" into the control of the Rock Island Road ends the battle of the old giants. The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, known as the "Cotton Belt", was the last trace of the great steel network, which Jay Gould conceived and created, still to remain in the hands of his family. Now Edwin Gould without fuss or ceremony relinquishes...
...Southwestern...
...railway field, the merger movement continues to excite interest. In addition to progress among the Big Four in the Northeastern section of the country, the Southwestern roads, especially Missouri Pacific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Kansas City, Southern and St. Louis & San Francisco, are beginning to entertain serious merger developments. Whatever 1925 proves in trade and industry, little doubt exists that it will be a remarkable year for the railroad business...