Word: taplin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Erie. This acquisition was made after a desperate.struggle with the Taplin brothers of Cleveland during which Wheeling shares, virtually cornered, ran up from $27½ to $130. In 1930 the road's credit was still good and it sold $36,000,000 worth of bonds bearing only 4.5%. Last week came the Nickel Plate's crisis. It was unable to meet the interest and maturity of its $20,000.000 notes issued...
...silence, declared that any further announcements would have to come from the Hoover Cabinet. But already he had lined up potent support for his plan. Samuel Pursglove (Pittsburgh Terminal Coal) declared: "It always was my idea of what should be done." Other coal operators in favor included Frank E. Taplin (North American). Howard W. Showalter (Continental), Edmund R. Weise (South Fayette), J. H. Jenkins (Hutchinson...
...Rhode Island; Rutherford B. Hayes Scholarship, S. G. Silverman 1L, Cleveland, Ohio; Herbert Parker Scholarship, G. D. Reilly 1L, Dorchester; Robert T. Swaine Scholarship (1926), J. R. Bentley 1L, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Williston-Beale Scholarship, R. S. Grossman 1L, Chicago, Illinois; class of 1913 Scholarship, O. Fendler 1L, Manila, Arkansas; Taplin Scholarship, J. A. Anderson, Jr. 1L, West McHenry, Illinois...
Toledo to the Sea. Thirty-eight miles of new track between Cochran's Mill and Connellsville, Pa., last week were opened for traffic. Built at a cost of $16.000,000 by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway (Taplin-managed, Pennroad-controlled), it joins the P. & W. V. with Western Maryland, affords another direct route from Toledo and the Great Lakes to Baltimore and the Atlantic seaboard, may afford a 24-hour freight saving. If the proposed Eastern rail consolidation plan goes through, control of the P. & W. V. will be held jointly by the four eastern systems, hence the new link will...
...opening ceremonies. Newton D. Baker, who is personal counsel to the Van Sweringens, will preside. Speakers: Mayor John D. Marshall of Cleveland, President Patrick E. ("Pull Eighty Cars'") Crowley of New York Central, President W. L. Ross of Nickel Plate. The Brothers Van Sweringen will be present: the Brothers Taplin, in all probability, will not. The Taplins, inveterate Van Sweringen-baiters, as minority stockholders in the Wheeling, tried to hold up the building of the terminal, carried their case from court to court up to the U. S. Supreme Court, where they lost it. After lunch the guests will...