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93 Men Control 75 Percent Of Our Railroads
A 1904 study shows 93 individuals could jointly control over 75 percent of U S railroad operated mileage, 81 percent of gross earnings, and 82 percent of property. Directors grew more concentrated from 1889 to 1904, signaling increasing railroad control by a small elite.
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America
Edward T. Stotesbury
Frank Work
A. J. Cassatt
Alexander B. Coxe
Clement A. Griscom
Victor Morawetz
Charlies E. Pugh
J. D. Rockefeller, Jr
Eben Thomas
United States
Pennsylvania
Norfolk & Western
New York Central
Chicago & Northwestern
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago & St. Louis
Reading
Erie, Southern
Delaware Lackawanna & Western
Lehigh
Delaware & Hudson
Great Northern
Northern Dacisic
Union Pacific
Southern
Atchison
Gould Group
Illinois Central System
Seaboard Company
Atlantic Coast Line Company
Tos Railway Corporations