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...equipped to date, and another 1,000 will be finished by the end of 1935. The company has developed its own air-conditioning machinery but a few railroads prefer to install other types. The 141 Pullmans used in Baltimore & Ohio's crack trains are all fitted with York machinery. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has 30 Pullmans equipped by Carrier Corp. However, Pullman has outfitted about one-half of the 1,400 air-conditioned diners, club and lounge cars owned by the railroads. Such special work accounted for no small part of the profits announced last week...
...period following the Bacchanalian orgy of July, 1933, the liquor stocks again show promise. The old drinker's advice to "take a little of the hair of the dog that bit you" may prove profitable, especially Distillers and Schenley. Other good bets are Chrysler and Harvester. Among the rails, Atchison in the upper price range, and Southern Pacific and Southern Railway in the lower brackets look attractive...
Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific arrived from Omaha in an ordinary Pullman on a pass. So did Lawrence A. Downs of Illinois Central who lives in Chicago. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money...
Nearly every day last week the directors of some large corporation made news by voting to increase dividends or to join the ranks of dividend payers for the first time in years. Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway led off with a declaration of $2 on its common stock payable Sept. 1, the first dividend since June 1932. Southwest grain shipments had lifted Santa Fe's freight traffic to the highest point in 20 months. Earnings for the year ended June 30 would approximate $1 per share, said Chairman Samuel Thomas Bledsoe. and the rest of the dividend would...
...years Christian Reisner, A.B., S. T. B., D.D., has earned the distinction of getting his name and his works into the public prints more frequently than any other Manhattan pastor. An amiable showman, he runs his church like a business venture. Born in Atchison, Kans. 62 years ago; Dr. Reisner went to Manhattan from successful pastorates in Kansas City and Denver. Decade ago he envisioned a great 44-story Temple which would include apartments, recreation rooms, offices, shops and an illuminated cross visible for miles. An expert on church advertising and publicity. Dr. Reisner raised $5,000,000 before Depression...