Business: JAMES MILLER SYMES

Champion of the Rails

THE most dynamic spokesman and "lobbyist" for Washington the nation's troubled railroads is James Miller Symes, 61, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest (1958 revenue $844,200,000). Husky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 lbs.), highballing Jim Symes was the driving force behind the Smathers act, which gave the railroads some Government help and a measure of relief from overregulation. But he thinks the railroads can do much more to help themselves — by merging. Last week Jim Symes proclaimed that he still has an urge to merge, deplored the...

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