Show Continental Grows rows From FIrO 1 Start to toRMS Hue uge g System Considering what was originally originally origin origin- ally a mile 2300 Texas bus op operation operation operation op- op Continental hasn't hunt done dene too tOD badly during the t ten n year span from 1943 to 1953 T h Ii e a Inter s state t tat a t e Commerce Commis ions ion's decision Friday to toI I permit Continentals Continental's purchase of the mile milc American Bus BusHne line climaxed a n period of growth and expansion that has hns pushed the original route mile total up I to a n startling miles extending ex extend extending ex- ex tend tending ng fro Washington and New York to San Diego a and n d Seattle and md from Chicago to New Orleans and Brownsville And the man who came to toI Texas in 1943 to become president president president I dent of what was originally Bowen Bown Motor 1 Coaches Coach s is still doing business at the same desk as ns president of the flung far-flung j transportation empire known to the public as ns Continental Trail Trail- ways It took M. M E E. E Moore 1 about four years to whip his original company into a financial position position position tion where he could start ex expanding ex- ex He changed its name in 1915 1945 He merged it with Dixie Motor 1 Coaches and Santa SantaFe Fe in 1947 bought the Rio Grande Motorway l from the theD theD I D R G Railroad in 1948 and andI I then started working on the American American Am Am- properties in 1950 This past week the Finance Section of the I. I C. C C. C in effect agreed that he had done a good job fob as they approved his company's company's company's com com- pany's purchase of American through an interchange of common common common com com- mon and preferred stock And the aggressive attitude of Continental is indicated that while the American application to o the hc I. I C. C C. C was by far the largest argest in scope it was only one of the five that Moores Moore's company has on file for purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase approval An idea of what the Continental Continental Continental Contin Contin- operation has grown into at the end of 1952 is shown in their report of passenger miles op- op op operated operated elated with a gross revenue exceeding ex exceeding exceeding ex- ex And now the American operations nr are added to those figures a Mrs 1 Robert Hatch of oC Vernal Vernalis is visiting in Manti lanti with h her e r folks Mr 11 and Mrs I. I S. S Eksund Mrs 1 Budelia Madsen 1 visited in Tooele with her daughter Marlene and in Salt Lake City with her sister Mrs L. L E E. E Jensen Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen over last week end i d b What is needed most in the modern home is the family |