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245 04 $aThe Great Northern Railway :$ba history /$cRalph W. Hidy ... [et al.].
250 $a1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c2004.
300 $axv, 360 p. :$bill., maps ;$c21 x 28 cm.
490 1 $aThe Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series
500 $aOriginally published: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c1988.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 329-347) and index.
505 0 $aPreface / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- 1856 To 1916 -- The First Ten Miles -- Frustrated by Finance -- The Branch Line Comes First -- Main Line West -- Growing Pains -- Settlers for the Land -- Freight Traffic -- Northern Pacific Interlude -- Completing the Main Line -- The St. Vincent Extension -- Legislation and Litigation -- Conflict in Hard Times -- Laws and Lawsuits -- The Associates Gain Control -- Negotiating a Bond Purchase -- Completing Rail Links -- Eliminating Potential Competition -- Tag Ends of a Long-Tailed Kite -- The Manitoba -- Men and Organization -- Construction and Relations with Other Railroads -- Terminals in the Twin Cities -- Financial Management -- Consolidations and Adjustments -- The Canadian Pacific -- Strengthening Credit -- Boston Investors -- From Butte to Buffalo -- Systematizing Administration -- The Long March to Montana -- Eastward to Buffalo -- Tensions in Finance -- A New Problem -- Dissension, 1887-1889 -- On to Puget Sound -- New Dress -- Engineering Challenges -- "Head of the Rake" -- Sterling Bonds of 1890 -- Building the Transcontinental -- Creating an Empire -- Expansion in Minnesota -- Control of the Northern Pacific and the Burlington -- Jockeying for Position in the Northwest -- Continuing Skirmishes with the Canadian Pacific -- Developing the Northwest -- Organization and Development Improving and Strengthening Agriculture -- Men and Mallets -- Men and Organization -- First Years as a Transcontinental -- Fleshing Out -- Traffic Generation and the Oregon Lands -- Motive Power, Rolling Stock, and the Rates -- Locals, Limiteds, and Liners -- Expansion and Improvements -- Of Things Nautical -- Advertising, Glacier Park, and Rocky -- Express, Mail, and Silk -- Pricing the Service -- Corporate Structure and Finance -- Early Experience -- Consolidating Properties -- Finances of a Maturing Railroad -- "Leading the Band" -- Basic Principles -- Union-Management Relations, 1883-1893 -- The ARU Strike and Its Aftermath -- Toward Parity with Competitors, 1900-1916 -- 1916 To 1970 -- World War I and the USRA -- The Heritage -- The GN under Federal Control -- Return to Private Operation -- Of Good News and Bad -- Preparing for Control -- Frustrations and Realities -- Fighting Recession -- Resuming Course--with a Difference -- Polishing the Operation -- Upgrading Plant and Equipment -- Reducing Costs -- Conquering the Cascades -- Building Freight Traffic -- Passenger Business and Change -- The St. Paul Union Depot -- Highway Competition -- Upgrading Transcontinental Travel -- Advertising and Promotion -- Expansion and Development -- More Branch Lines -- Lure of California -- Frustrations in Colonizing -- Agricultural Diversification and Irrigation -- Northern Montana: Special Problems -- An Attempted Merger -- Corporate Health -- Growth in Funded Debt -- Performance -- The Tangled Ways of Finance -- Setting the Course -- Financial Management -- Over the Hurdle -- Controlling Expense -- Traffic and Profits in Adversity -- The Passenger Department -- Truck Competition -- Developmental Programs and Federal Stimulants -- Survival -- The Pressures of War--Again -- Gavin's Preparations -- Mobilization -- Cooperation under Regulation -- Performance and Financial Policy -- Labor-Management Relations in Depression and War -- Cooperation in Hard Times -- War and Prosperity -- Prosperity Under Stress -- Expectations and Realities -- Maximizing Efficiency -- The Operating and Financial Record.
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700 1 $aHidy, Ralph W.$q(Ralph Willard),$d1905-1977
830 0 $aFesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
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