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...down operating costs. As proof of efficiency, they increased ton-miles per train-hour from 7,506 in 1921 to 10,839 in 1930. Freight locomotive miles per day were raised from 49.5 in 1921 to 58 in 1930, passenger locomotive miles from 103 to 116. Coal to move 1,000 tons one mile was cut from 162 Ib. in 1921 to 121 in 1930. A passenger car required 17 Ib. of coal to run a mile in 1921, 14 Ib. in 1930. Cited was Secretary of Commerce Hoover's praise in 1926 of the reorganization and efficient management...
Wages. The roads, though laying off "many thousands" of workers, have maintained basic wage scales, as promised President Hoover. Any move to reduce wages would require "the long procedure of conference and arbitration" under the Railway Labor Act. The results of such negotiations would be too belated to help the carriers in their present emergency...
...inconveniences of smoke and commerce were annoying to the medical school and Lakeside Hospital. The two institutions ought to move, decided Mr. Mather. to the east, like the rest of the city. He guided them to a $5,000,000 area adjoining Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science. First he built a Medical School with his own money. That was finished in 1924. Then he got help to build schools of Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry, the Medical Library, Babies & Children's Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Rainbow Hospital (for crippled children), and an Institute for Pathology...
...working for his father's Cleveland Iron Mining Co. as timekeeper and payroll clerk. He convalesced in Europe for two years and returned directly to the family business. He amplified it until he became rated Ohio's richest citizen. Unlike John Davison Rockefeller, he and his wealth did not move away from Cleveland...
After the war Forrest, a delegate to the first post-war Democratic convention, went to Manhattan, "attracted so much attention that he could not move about the streets without drawing a crowd." One day he got tired of the press, "swept his mighty shoulders around and shouted," cleared the street. As soon as he heard about the Ku Klux Klan he joined it, was elected "Grand Wizard of the Invisible Empire." (Robert E. Lee had written re fusing the command, approving the idea but saying that his approval must remain "invisible.") In 1877 Forrest died, full of years, scars, memories...