Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many psychiatrists fear that apparently speedy cures may really have little effect, leave permanent psychic damage. The same objection has been raised to hypnoanalysis (Lindner's example was finished in 46 hourly sessions). But hypnoanalysis also has respectable support: it has been used by the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kan., by famed Psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson, of Michigan's Eloise Hospital...
This week a new president takes over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...
...first rickety tracks followed the old Santa Fe wagon and cattle trail, west from Topeka through Council Grove, Dodge City, across the muddy Arkansas River and into New Mexico. There were few passengers and not much freight until the West grew. But the West grew. And the West is still growing. Railroader Gur ley expects the Santa Fe to keep up with...
Though less than 8% of the total U.S. mileage was subsidized by land grants, the railroads cleared an estimated $434 million from the sale of land. Four of them- Southern Pacific; Northern Pacific; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Union Pacific -still hold most of the remaining 16 million acres, worth $60 million. But the railroads have long since regretted their old bargain. The Government is now far & away the nation's biggest shipper...
...unhappy railroads figure that Government rebates are costing them $20 million a month, that they have forfeited more than $600 million since the first land grant act was passed. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which has netted a total of $23 million from land-grant sales, returned $40 million in lower freight rates to the Government in 1943 alone. Last week railroaders breathed a hopeful sigh as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee reported out the Boren bill. Based on the premise that the roads have now repaid their subsidy in full, it would...