Vice president C. D. Young's files on research and development, 1934-1944.

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Vice president C. D. Young's files on research and development, 1934-1944.

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The surviving fragment of C. D. Young's files deals with his interest in research and development in the 1930s and 1940s, and with wartime planning. The larger body of Purchasing Department records, including files on the purchase of rolling stock and supplies, were excluded from the Penn Central Appraisal Project.

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United States. National Resources Planning Board

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Purchasing Dept.

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Charles Duncanson Young was probably the most distinguished head of the Purchasing Department. Young was born at Washington, D.C., on May 19, 1876, and entered the service of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway as a special apprentice on June 5, 1900. He rose steadily through the ranks of the Motive Power Department of Lines West, reaching the post of Assistant Engineer of Motive Power. On October 1, 1911, Young was transferred to Lines East as Engineer of Te...

Young, Charles D. (Charles Duncanson), 1878-1955

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...