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...bookkeeper is a strapping answer to a football coach's prayer. Yet in program four, after Pop has the bookkeeper's boy underfoot for a weekend, he finds that he much prefers his own chess-playing son, who at least does not eat like a horse and grab the sports page...
...tunnel (6,500 ft. long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been done since then, although there is no doubt about the tunnel's feasibility. The two pilot tunnels are still there, each of them watched by a single...
...Central of Georgia after he won control of the road that he withdrew. But McGinnis argues that his heavy expenses paid heavy dividends in new business for the Norfolk Southern. As for the New Haven, McGinnis knows it like his own backyard. He helped Buck Dumaine's father grab control in 1948. Before that, he was a consultant when the New Haven was reorganized after going into bankruptcy...
Some of the most exciting novels about American industry have been written by those who liked it least. In the pages of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser or Upton Sinclair, industry is a jungle inferno of grab and stab. But behind the social bias is the magnetic pull of wheat, or rail roads, or oil, and what it means to work with and around the sources of American industrial power. Author Victor White has put some of this magnetism without the bias into Peter Domanig in America. Where he falls short of the earlier models is in making his hero...
...York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The man Buck Dumaine wanted to "give it to" was Patrick B. McGinnis, the Wall Street railroad juggler who recently collided with the ICC over his expense accounts while boss of the Norfolk Southern (TIME, Feb. 22). In 1948 McGinnis helped old Frederic Dumaine grab control of the New Haven, bought 75,000 shares of stock, largely for clients. But now McGinnis doesn't like the way Buck Dumaine runs the road, and is waging a proxy fight to take over the road at the April 14 stockholders meeting...