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Samuel Matthews Vauclain, President Baldwin Locomotive: "Since Nov. 1 hundreds of thousands of Baldwin Locomotive shares have been bought and sold on the stock exchanges. During a brief day last week 44,000 shares changed hands. This is mysterious because only 200,000 Baldwin Locomotive shares exist, and of these only 30,000 to 35,000 are floating on the market. The situation carried the stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain...
Faith. Five years ago, the Argentine State Railways were in parlous need of locomotives and even of operating funds. But financing at terms at all reasonable was difficult. President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, perspicacious with his 70 years of activity, learned of this situation and shipped down $7,107,850 worth of engines and $1,500,000 in cash, taking in return notes which the Argentine Congress did not confirm. And for five years financiers have on occasion twitted Mr. Vauclain about those notes. Last week those notes were paid, with interest, promptly...
This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
Samuel Matthews Vauclain, 69-year-old President of Baldwin Locomotive Works, is hale. He may be seen at his Broad Street offices in Philadelphia any day he is not absent answering the questions of investigation committees or attending sessions of one of his many scientific societies...
Last week he was cautiously asked by a pressman, working up a story on the value of health to business executives, what he thought of the idea. Said Mr. Vauclain: "In my business I make it a point never to inquire into the personal affairs of the men with whom I come in contact-the way they live is. their affair. My job is to look after myself so I can stick on the job and give them plenty of work to keep them busy." He keeps fit by keeping a physician hired permanently to guard his health. Although...