Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note, but last week 35,000 lined the streets of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,000), to honor the return of "Comedian, Philanthropist, Hoosier" Red Skelton, 50. There was an honorary degree from Vincennes University, a distinguished citizenship award and, best of all, a $1,800,000 bridge over the Wabash named for him. "All right, everybody off my bridge," cried a delighted Red at the dedication. He had learned to swim in the Wabash, he said, "and boy, it was stuffy in that bag with them kittens...
...rich and well-run CHESAPEAKE & OHIO for control of the anemic BALTIMORE & OHIO. The other-designed to compete against a possible C & 0 -B & O system-is the proposal of the efficient coal-hauling NORFOLK & WESTERN to take over the NICKEL PLATE and then to lease the WABASH to form a 7,400-mile superfreight line with routes west into Missouri and north into Canada. The N. & W. proposal awaits an examiner's report; the C & O bid has won an examiner's approval. The final word is up to the ICC commissioners...
...Wabash College...
MERGER-HUNGRY New York Central is asking ICC to include it in the pending Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate and Wabash combine that might later join the Pennsylvania Railroad. Central fears being left out as the East moves toward two giant rail networks centered about the Pennsy and the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...Pennsylvania, which owns 28% (the largest single block) of the N. & W. and 99% Of the Wabash, has already blessed the merger. So have the Nickel Plate and N. & W. directors. The plan may be the first step in a Pennsylvania scheme to set up a huge eastern rail system that it will later try to join...