(Source: Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2019)
NEW YORK — Pete Carpenter’s work experience during college included stocking shelves at Kroger grocery stores and serving as a railroad brakeman. Kroger, he wrote later, taught him how to spot items with the best profit margins. When he graduated in 1964, however, he decided railroads offered the better route out of his youthful poverty. Mr. Carpenter, who died of cancer Aug. 20 at age 77, rose to become chief executive of CSX Transportation, the railroad arm of CSX Corp., from 1992 to 1999. As a former railway worker, he tried to knock down barriers to communications between workers and management in an industry known for bare-knuckle labor relations.
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