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...Brothers Van Sweringen propose a major consolidation of their Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette...
...rejects the Van Sweringen merger as not in the public interest...
...Sweringen interests were the first to start operations. By an ingenious use of intermeshed holding companies . . . and the funds of the throng who were eager in the days of maniac prosperity to invest in holding companies, they put to-together [the C. & O.] system. . . . Twice our approval was sought and twice it was refused...
...Author. Margaret Bourke-White was graduated from Cornell in 1927, went home to Cleveland where she became a professional photographer when she found her hobby paid. Otis Steel Co. gave her her first big job., which she did so well that Cleveland's Van Sweringen brothers engaged her to take pictures of their Terminal Tower project. Then FORTUNE sought her, brought her to Manhattan. Now at 26, her income is $50,000 a year. Nervy, she has gone where her eye led her never takes no for an answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps...
...periods?Building and Consolidating?have of course overlapped each other by years. The present trunk lines represent such consolidations; the Van Sweringen Brothers were the best example of super-consolidators. Lately a new catalyzer has appeared in the railroad crucible. While Arthur Curtiss James was experiencing the novel sensation of swinging a sledge hammer, a new figure (once a day laborer) was experiencing the novel sensation of being a railroad president in his own right?President Patrick H. Joyce of Chicago Great Western...