The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983

by Miner, Craig H.; Miner, H. Craig

• ISBN13: 9781585440481
• ISBN10: 1585440485
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-12-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a private company after twenty-three years in a receivership. In its past lay a collapsed rail empire, a sensational bankruptcy struggle that shattered dreams and betrayed trusts, an emotional battle over stockholders' interests, and the flamboyant maneuvers of the railroad's overseers. In its future lay two computerized, merger-dominated decades in which the railroad business would serve as a classic example of a tradition-bound industry forced to adapt to "future shock." The transition from crippled line to prime property would become, as one politician later put it, "a lawyers' paradise, and a security-holders' nightmare."

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Out of the Depths	p. 3
The Eagle Turns	p. 18
William Marbury	p. 33
Downing Jenks	p. 45
Chicago	p. 59
Alleghany and Others	p. 82
The Best Defense	p. 112
The Recapitalization	p. 137
Railroading: The MoPac Style	p. 155
Control and the Computer	p. 181
The "Mop-Up"	p. 203
Index	p. 231
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