A major and a lieutenant colonel, armed with a mimeograph of the Presidential order directing the Army to seize all U.S. railroads, walked into Union Pacific's towering Omaha headquarters building at 8 o'clock one morning last week. They took an elevator to the 12th-floor executive offices, began knocking at doors. At last they came to the office of tough little Vice President G. F. Ashby. He grinned and guessed:
"You've come to take us over, have you?"
He led them in to see big President Bill Jeffers. Everybody shook hands. Said Jeffers: "Anything...
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