When Joseph Hardie Young was retired as assistant to the president of Pennsylvania's Westinghouse Air Brake Co. last winter, he called it "a dirty trick." Over the years, Joe Young had served no fewer than 22 railway companies, and he felt he still knew his way around. He had been general superintendent of four companies (including the Colorado & Southern and the Southern Pacific) and president of nine (including the Norfolk Southern, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western) . And hadn't he served Westinghouse faithfully for...
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