Class J Shoppings after Jan 1956 - STUART SAUNDERS

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Thanks to everybody for their insight and responses!

Mike Weeks
seattle



On Saturday, August 8, 2015, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Mike Weeks -
>
> If you want to know about Saunders' business tactics and methods, read the
> book titled, No Way to Run a Railroad, by the noted historian Stephen
> Salsbury (New York: McGraw Hill, 1982,) ISBN 0070544832.  You can get it
> InterLibrary-Loan, or you can purchase a copy off one of the on-line used
> book sites.
>
> Salsbury writes the behind-the-scenes story of how Saunders repeatedly
> ordered his financial people to cook the books, because "the numbers" were
> only a means to an end for him. It is apparent that he, being a lawyer,
> never really understood corporate finance. A truly fascinating read,
> especially for people of my age who lived through those times, and wondered
> what was REALLY going on.
>
> For anyone interested in Saunders, this is an indispensible source.  I
> have been through my copy at least six time.
>
> -- abram burnett
>
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