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.
Texas A&m University Press The rebirth of the missouri pacific, 1956-1983, paperback/h. craig miner
