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Meantime Mr. Loree had completed the coup of his life: D. & H. had bought into the Wabash and Lehigh Valley lines for strategic reasons, and when ICC ordered it to sell (Pennsylvania R. R. was only too happy to buy) there was a profit of $20,700,000. In 1932 Mr. Nuelle's O. & W., familiarly known on the Stock Exchange as the Old Woman, was one of the country's 19 Class I roads (among which D. & H. was not included) making money. Then Mr. Loree made the blunder of his life: He used part...
Time & again Mr. Loree tried to connect his two roads. Time & again the Commission shook its head. In the 1920s he inconspicuously bought into small Eastern lines like the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, presented the Commission with a plan for a "fifth trunk line'' to rank with Pennsylvania, B. & O )., New York Central and C. & O. roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree...
Among the first and most feverishly idealistic projects undertaken by the League of Nations was to send a three-man commission to Persia (now Iran) to investigate the opium traffic. This task was entrusted to Frederic A. Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., one of whose nephews is now President of the U. S. He ran into a rather remarkable situation and, rather remarkably, was able to do something very practical about...
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...genial Greek named Gust Relias, who will sell this year about 50 carloads of trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard three miles on a tranquil...