Word: wabash
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...appears in the new role of expert consolidator of railways. His proposed fifth Eastern system would stretch from New York to the Gulf as well as to the Great Lakes. It would consist of the Delaware & Hudson, and also the Kansas City & Southern, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Wabash, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western or Lehigh Valley or both, and perhaps other small roads...
...five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most fiercely through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing Griffin and razing half of Princeton. Apparently this was done by one tornado or a recurrent one, because the path of the storm is a mathematically straight line on the map. Subsidiary storms invaded Tennessee and Kentucky, not without death and destruction...
...with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together with the Western Union Telegraph Co. He bought arid sold and sometimes he ruined, but he always profited. After a time, he turned to more constructive practice, planned a great ocean-to-ocean railroad system...
George Jay, the eldest son, undertook to complete his father's transcontinental system and "muffed it." He started building the Western Pacific. He fought Harriman, Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He bought an entrance into Pittsburgh for the Wabash at a great price. When the panic of 1907 came, several of the roads were in poor condition, went into bankruptcy and George Jay was obliged to go to his enemies for money. He lost control of the Missouri Pacific, of the Western Union Telegraph Co., of the Denver & Rio Grande. He lost the Western Pacific, the Texas Pacific. Meanwhile...
...They finished their piping; another group of male singers took their place, repeated the old ballad by John Dowland, arranged for chorus singing. Another and another group repeated the song; they were the glee-clubs of Armour, Beloit, Chicago, Grinnell, Illinois, Iowa, Knox, Lake Forest, Michigan, Millikin, Northwestern, Purdue, Wabash and Wisconsin colleges and universities. After every rendering of the ballad, judges made notes, announced at length that of all seats of learning in the mid-U. S., Wisconsin is sweetest of throat; Michigan is second, they said; Grinnell, third...