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...sprawling Missouri Pacific. Hard times quashed that idea. In 1931 Chicago Great Western got control of K.C.S. But litigation, instituted by Railroader Loree, kept the pair apart. Last week, Kansas City Southern once more was on the verge of matrimony-this time proposed by its Board Chairman Harvey Crowley Couch...
...onetime (1932-34) RFC director who organized Arkansas's first telephone sys tem, strapping, 61-year-old Harvey Couch is Arkansas's wealthiest private citizen, and the Southwest's No. 1 private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch...
Centers: William M. Couch, Jr., Arthur T. Lyman, Jr., Richard L. Mills, John J. O'Neill, Lewis N. Sandler, John D. Phillipsborn...
William Morris Couch, Jr., Platte City, Missouri--Kansas City Junior College, Kansas City, Missouri...
...have] a valid franchise in Guntersville which has many years to run." Guntersville was just as set on its course. Although the city's rates are average for systems supplied by TVA (75? for 25 kilowatt-hours a month), 30% lower than Alabama Power's, Mayor Couch was sure that profits from the new plant would be sufficient to retire the bond issue. He claimed about 95% of the company's 800 customers were switching over -everybody except its stockholders and employes...