Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile gap between the end of his tracks at Columbus and the Nickel Plate's at Sandusky, he wants to buy the Sandusky Line from the Pennsylvania Railroad for $27 million. Finally, to push his network into Michigan and west to Omaga, he plans to lease the Wabash Railroad for $7,125,000 annually for six years, eventually merge with it by exchanging 675,000 shares of N. & W. stock for all of the Wabash's 598,186 shares...
...combined earnings of the roads last year totaled $77 million, well ahead of the earnings of any other transportation corporation. President Saunders estimates that by eliminating duplicate tracks and terminals between the Wabash and Nickel Plate, he will save at least $25 million a year and make the profit picture prettier...
...Wabash (654) ...........Crawfordsville, Ind., 45 mi ....................... $1,560-$1,700 N.W. of Indianapolis
Young Pound developed a lasting eruditer-than-thou attitude, but he also had a large, unmanageable streak of naivete that would derange his life. As a French and Spanish instructor at Wabash College in 1907, he went out late one night and ran into a stranded burlesque girl, hungry and shivering in the winter streets. He fed her, brought her back to his rented room. and let her sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. When his landladies, two spinster sisters, found out about it, Pound was fired. This episode triggered his departure for London via Venice...
...line, in a popular song, singing: "Hello, Central, give me Heaven." She wanted to talk to her mother. And never did the eternal triangle chime more funereally than it did in the Nineties, most notably under the hand of Paul Dresser, songwriter (The Banks of the Wabash), monologuist, medicine-wagon minstrel and older brother of Theodore Dreiser. Dresser's He Brought Home Another might have qualified as the first great aria in soap opera...