biography
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Young, Robert Ralph
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1958)
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| biography:
| Railroad executive and financier, born in Canadian, Texas, USA. A financial manager turned stockbroker and speculator, he purchased the Alleghany Corp, thus gaining control of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (1933). As chairman (1942–54), he was a leader in the modernization of US railroads, and after a highly publicized proxy fight he gained control of the New York Central (1954). |
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