Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Brownlee Owen Currey, 51, investment banker and president of Equitable Securities Corp.; of anemia; in Nashville, Tenn. Starting as a bank clerk while a Vanderbilt undergraduate, Currey wound up as a transit king (American Express Co.), publisher (Southern Agriculturist, Farm and Ranch), city bus-system czar (in Akron, Nashville, Richmond...
...Transit & All That...
...Sarajevo. He was Charles's brother, right enough, but both were nephews of Francis Ferdinand and sons of the heir's younger brother, Otto Francis Joseph. Francis Ferdinand's marriage to Sophie Hohenberg was morganatic, and their children had no claim to the throne. Sic transit . . . but not that fast...
Career: Murray has been active in manufacturing and public utilities and served for eight years as receiver of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit system...
Like Mercier, who began as a transit-man and roadmaster's clerk, Russell trained as an engineer at Stanford, started with Southern Pacific as timekeeper for a road gang, rose to assistant foreman of a section gang. As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant division superintendent to boss of the Los Angeles division in 1939. There he caught the eye of Mercier, who made him his assistant in 1941, groomed...