Word: lundahl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Chicago and Kansas City run the tracks of Chicago & Alton. Midway on the system is Wilmington, Ill., a town of 1,500. To Wilmington last week came a special train. A few minutes after its arrival, Herbert Alvin Lundahl, 48, short, pleasant, silver-haired member of the Chicago Club, mounted a special platform in the old red-brick station. As special I master-in-chancery, he droned through a long description of all the Chicago & Alton's property, from stations to lanterns. "What am I bid?" he asked after a description of each of the five lots into which...
...What am I bid for the entire property?" asked Special Master Lundahl. "Twenty-three million dollars," said Bidder Moffat...
...Sold!" said Mr. Lundahl, and the little crowd which had huddled around the old wood-burning stove prepared to leave...