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Contents
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Learning the Business The Illinois Central 18831909 | 24 |
Applying the Lessons The Union Pacific 18971909 | 49 |
Combining Systems The Southern Pacific 19011909 | 67 |
Captain of Finance The Northern Securities Company and Its Aftermath | 88 |
Looting or Improved Management? The Chicago Alton | 104 |
Minor Plays The Kansas City Southern the Baltimore Ohio and the Erie Railroad Company | 126 |
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Alton Railroad annual volumes Average Passenger Baltimore & Ohio biography bonds Burlington capital earnings Central Pacific chapter Chicago & Alton cific Commission common stock competition consolidation debt Dubuque & Sioux E. H. Harriman Edward Henry Harriman elected equipment Erie Fish Freight Output Freight Rates freight ton miles Gross Accounting Rates Harriman management Harriman period Harriman syndicate Illinois Central improvement increase interest internal rate investment cost J. P. Morgan Kansas City Southern Kennan Loeb & Company major Manual of Railroads mile of road miles per mile Northern Pacific stock Northern Securities Company operating Oregon Short Line Orleans output per mile Pacific Railroad Passenger and Freight passenger mile president profit purchase rail Railway rate of return receivership reconstruction Revenue Ripley Roosevelt Schiff shares sinking fund Sioux City Southern Pacific Company Stuyvesant Fish substantial Table traffic transcontinental U. S. roads Union Pacific's volumes of Poor voting trust York
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Page 3 - Harriman carrying out her late husband's ideas has most generously presented to the state for a public park 10,000 acres of these lands, together with $1,000,000 in cash.) His real purpose, to which — as I said before — money-making was merely incidental, was to do big constructive things, his real sport was to pit his strength and brain against those of other men or against difficult tasks, his real reward was the consciousness of worthy accomplishment, the sense of mastery, the exercise of...
Page 4 - Every year he provided one or more entertainments for the youngsters, and, personally, I never knew him to refuse to give work to any one of them whom I could confidently recommend. He was president of the Club during the first eleven years after I became superintendent, and during all those years he never refused anything which I considered of benefit to the boys. If I called at his office, the affairs of the Boys' Club were never once kept waiting, and thousands of the youth of the East Side would...