Business & Finance: Pennsy's Record

General William Wallace Atterbury, President, Pennsylvania Railroad Co., said last week that 1926 was the road's most profitable year—net income $67,567,958 from total railway operating revenues of $766,989,363. The system operates 4.9% of the total miles of road and 7.05% of the total miles of track in the U. S., yet last year handled 10.92% of all the freight traffic arid 17.91% of all the passenger traffic. It carried the equivalent of one ton of freight 49 billion miles (264 round trips between earth and sun) and one passenger 6 1/2 billion miles...

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