Despite his big stock ownership, Robert R. Young was not yet running the New York Central. But last week he accepted an invitation to ride in the locomotive cab. The invitation had come without much prodding.
A fortnight ago Central's President Gustav Metzman called Young to ask if he could come and see Young at his winter home in Palm Beach. Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock. C. &...
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