This week a new president takes over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.
The job is no sinecure; 55-year-old Fred Gurley will earn every cent of his $60,000-a-year salary. The Santa Fe has a tough year ahead. Its Western divisions are snowed under by a record wheat crop.
Its big Mikados and 5,400 h.p. diesels are dragging ever-increasing loads of war materials westward over the mountain passes while the services call for more & more. Passenger traffic has rocketed 577% over 1939. And labor is so scarce that women and young girls...
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