Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more over the NBC radio network. One railroad president and two vice presidents judged the contestants on "pronunciation, articulation, inflection and diction...
...management were the last five years of the post-War boom. Like other railroad men of that era, he tossed about his railroad's millions in the great game of trading, for "strategic" reasons, in control of other lines. Pennsylvania's investments in Lehigh Valley and Wabash alone cost $106,000,000. At today's prices those holdings are worth about $4,000,000⊕ Mr. Atterbury's personal memorial, however, is not a stack of securities but Pennsylvania's $270,000,000 improvement and electrification program carried out in his last five years-five...
...into seven pieces, Mr. Jones suggested, each of the connecting carriers buying one piece. RFC would, if necessary, prefer to lend them the purchase price rather than try to resuscitate M. & St. L. itself with cash direct. The seven big lines-Great Northern, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Milwaukee, Chicago & North Western and Burlington-seemed to like the Jones "thought." Adjourning to Chicago, they ordered a thorough technical investigation. RFC has a $340,000,000 stake in the U. S. railroads as a whole...
...Anderson Lee, 2G., of Ledoga, Ind., to be an Assistant in History 1934-35. A.B. Wabash Coll...
...Hermann Kahn, arrived in the U. S. from his German birthplace by way of England, No. 52 houses the great banking firm in only four of its 20 floors. There in his day, shrewd old Jacob Schiff reorganized the big Kuhn, Loeb railroads: Union Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...