Guest Wrote:
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> If you can find a copy Thomas Ploss's book "The
> Nation Pays Again" gies into the Milwaukee
> Bankruptcy in dept. He was their General Consul at
> the time. He talks aloud the Pacific Extension and
> basically how do to inept Management the railroad
> put it into a death spiral, soon followed by the
> rest of the railroad.
>
> Once in bankruptcy the Milwaukee Road (and the
> Rock Island) became worth far more dead than
> alive.

I own a copy, I reread it every so often. It has a lot of relevant applications in this day and age of flim-flam artists in control of business and the country.