Business & Finance: Huddle in a Hamlet

In the heart of Kentucky's bluegrass lands, 30 mi. west of Paris and 10 mi. north of Versailles, is Spring Station. Fifteen people live there. It is 600 mi. to the nearest track of the Southern Pacific R. R. The Louisville & Nashville railroad runs through Spring Station but no trains stop except on flag. Last week a train did stop and out of a private car stepped 15 directors and employes of the Southern Pacific Co. They marched into a one-room brick building. There in a space 25 by 25 ft. the two-billion-dollar...

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