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...last week the East's five most potent railmen and their aides sat down around a big conference table in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. They were William Wallace Atterbury, strident and aggressive president of Pennsylvania R. R.; Patrick Edward ("Pull Eighty Cars") Crowley, diffident and watchful president of New York Central R. R.; Daniel Willard, precise and conciliatory president of Baltimore & Ohio; and the Brothers Van Sweringen, urbane and alert owners of Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. Luncheon was served them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they...
...treasury proudly announced that 103,000 subscribers had sent $95,000,000 in cash or checks. Said J. E. Fenton, Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Henry Scullin (on his way back from the Imperial Conference at London): "I am very hopeful that if we continue to pull together we will soon find come out of the black cloud of depression and enjoy the sunlight of prosperity...
According to them, engineermen pull trains...
...University of Chicago other tycoons got together at the seventh annual conference of major industries. Most of them were optimistic for the long-pull. George Matthew Verity, benevolent president of American Rolling Mill Co., declared: "The steel industry is like a great giant tied and pulling at its shackles. It is impatient to go. And go he will within a comparatively short time." "A successful and prosperous year in 1931" was predicted by Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., polo-playing young vice president of Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...Manhattan advertising company's employ after deciding against a college education at Princeton. Said he on his first day at work: "I don't know much about it [advertising] yet, of course. ... It seems to me that the advertising business might do a great deal to pull the other businesses out of their depression...