Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help the most troubled railroad in the East, the Commerce Department last week tapped one of the best railroaders in the West. It selected Frederic B. Whitman, 63, president of the Western Pacific Railroad, to head a panel of nine top railroad men who will make a roundhouse-to-trestle study of the New Haven, propose how to get it back on the tracks...
...Whitman is an experienced railroad doctor. He went into railroading straight out of Harvard ('19), rose to become chief of the Western Pacific in 1949, when it was only five years out of bankruptcy...
...smooth diplomat, he wangled permission from governmental commissions to slash money-losing passenger services, bought new equipment and attracted high-rate freight. Within a year, the Western Pacific was solidly in the black, and it has been profitable since then. Just last month Whitman reported that W.P. profits in 1961 rose...
...facilities in the non-sports part of the program include a photo darkroom in Whitman, and a stereo set and record collection in Agassiz...
...dull, alas, but in your article of February 28 on the Radcliffe House System you have made it even duller. In fact, if not in the CRIMSON, East House has done more than "schedule several events." We have instituted lunch hours (from 12:30-1:45 in Eliot and Whitman); we have held a series of Sunday teas with members of the Administration, the Faculty and the Radcliffe Institute; we have had two and plan three more House Dinners with Faculty, undergraduate and graduate students interested (though not necessarily specializing) in a particular field, such as music, social relations, Latin...