Word: wabash
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...bondholders 50% in cash, laid down a plan by which they were offered 25% in cash, 75% in three-year 6% notes. Last week on the day that the old notes fell due only 71% of their holders had assented to the offer. For the first time since the Wabash defaulted interest after it was in receivership (TIME, Dec. 14) a major U. S. railroad was in default. A receivership action was promptly started by a note-holder...
...Wabash Wildwood...
When day broke over the Wabash. the Dixie Bee bristled with guardsmen's machine guns. The pickets had melted away like mist. The mine ceased operation temporarily while its owners sought permanent protecting injunctions...
Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
...Pennsylvania . . . with the aid of the fantastic Pennroad Corp. worked rapidly and regardless of cost acquiring without our approval the Wabash, Lehigh Valley, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton. ... In its arrogance the Pennsylvania consulted neither the commission nor the law nor public opinion...