Railroads: Healthy Among the Sick

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At 7:51 one morning last week, a big man in a wide-brimmed Panama hat got out of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac and pushed his way through the swinging back door of the eleven-story San Francisco office building that Westerners, half in awe and half in bitterness, used to call "The Capitol of California." As usual, Donald Joseph McKay Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific Co.. was hustling to get to work before 8 o'clock. Explained the top man on the world's most flourishing railroad: "It's an old railroad operating man's habit....

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