Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy Pressler Lemke, matronly divorced nurse of Northboro, Mass., had been found murdered and buried in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia after a postal courtship. Accused of the killing was small, pudgy, pig-eyed Harry F. Powers of Quiet Dell. In his house was found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of his correspondents, Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher of Park Ridge, Ill., together with the bodies of her three children. Mr. Powers' system : mail-order them, marry them, mulct them, murder them (TIME, Sept...
...still pushing its own consolidation plan, ordered Pennsylvania to get rid of its Wabash stock. I. C. C.'s plan was to consolidate Wabash and Seaboard Air Line (put in receivership December 1930) into a fifth eastern trunk line to be known as System No. 7. This scheme has pretty well collapsed but the I. C. C. order has not been withdrawn...
...Chicago. Nicholas Perisich went to his bank, withdrew $10,000. Next day the bank failed. "I was just lucky," said he. Lucky Nicholas Perisich locked his $10,000 in an old trunk from which it was soon removed by a burglar...
...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...
...Toledo. Working for many railroads, he rose rapidly and in 1915 became board chairman of Wabash. In 1924 he became board chairman of Missouri Pacific, was ousted in 1930 by the Brothers Van Sweringen. Close associate of Leonor Fresnel Loree in his plans to build a fifth great eastern trunk line, Railman' Williams put forward a plan of his own in 1929, two years after Mr. Loree was frustrated in his efforts. Partly because of the strong position of Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wabash plans failed. Railman Williams, a famed breeder of stock and poultry, was exhibiting at the National...