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Sidetracked. When Ike Tigrett graduated from Union University in Jackson, Tenn. in 1898 he had $800 and a desire to become a banker. In a tiny town near Jackson he rented a building, scrawled the word "Bank" on the window, and built a cashier's cage out of chicken wire. In the cage Tigrett roosted anxiously for several days until the bank's first customer entered, opened an account with a deposit...
...infinitely patient Isaac Burton Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
...standards set during the Harriman-Hill-Gould era, 34 years represents a long time to create a railroad empire. But Ike Tigrett was never in any great hurry...
Last week Tigrett was in Manhattan dickering with the bondholders' protective committee of the Alton. He got the committee to agree to swap $45 million of Alton 35, due in 1949, for $23 million of G.M. & 0. 4% income bonds, and 328,787 shares of common stock...
...competitors one better by stocking his streamliners with smart, good-looking college girls - the U. S.'s first train hostesses. Scheduled to pay for themselves in seven and a half years, the sleek, Diesel-powered stream liners paid out in less than half that time. In 1936 President Tigrett formed Gulf Transport Co. to handle freight over a coordinated rail-highway system. To it he added a passenger service with tickets interchangeable between busses and trains. Says he: "We believe in hauling as far as we can by rail and then the rest of the way by highway...