∙ Blunt-spoken Donald J. Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, geared last week for battle. Testifying before an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in San Francisco about the fight between the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for control of the small but strategic Western Pacific Railroad, Don Russell argued that S.P. control of the Western would eliminate "wasteful duplication of facilities." Russell, head of the railroad with the biggest profits in the U.S. (1960 earnings: $65,400,000), is an ardent champion of mergers of competing "side-by-side" railroads. But the...
Business: Personal File: Jul. 28, 1961
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