Business & Finance: Wedge

Long has California been considered the domain of Southern Pacific Railway Co. But a year ago, over the many protests of the S. P., an invasion of the domain was approved by the I. C. C. Last week, through the redwooded Oregon-California border near Klamath Falls, where Herbert Hoover likes to fish, there was driven the first wedge of the invasion. A track-laying machine flaunting a "California Here We Come" banner noisily jerked its way toward and across the State line.

No slight wedge was this. Behind it to the North was the combined force...

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