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The roots of the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation are planted deep in the 19th Century, though the company's present structure did not begin to take shape until 1908. That came about with the merger of two powerful railroad journals: The Railroad Gazette (founded 1856) and The Railway Age (1876). Two officers of The Gazette financed the consolidation and gave the new company its name: E. A. Simmons, The Gazette's vice president-advertising, and William H. Boardman, its editor.
Simmons-Boardman's principal business is the publication of six monthly trade magazines, with related operations that offers additional information resources to the industries the company serves.
Railway Age, the surviving title of the 1908 merger, has long been regarded as the company's flagship publication. It is published out of the New York office. Now in its 129th year of publication, Railway Age is believed to be the world's oldest continuously published transportation trade magazine. (An ancestor, the American Railroad Journal, printed its first issue in 1832.)
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ABA BANKING JOURNAL ...
The official publication of the American Bankers Association
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Welcome to ABA Banking Journal Online. This special web edition of the magazine provides content from recent issues of ABA Banking Journal, the monthly magazine of the American Bankers Association, published continuously since 1908.
The content will be refreshed regularly, with some articles retained longer than others because their data are still useful. Certain special issues will be included from time to time-for example, the results of our annual Community Bank Competitiveness Survey.
To receive the full contents of the magazine each month, as well as all special reports, we encourage you to click on any of the "To Subscribe" buttons on the site and fill out the subscription application. A subscription is free if you qualify, but all information must be completed for your application to be processed.
Many articles from past issues (from 1998 on) can be found in the "Past Issues" section. A search device will help you find particular topics. For a more complete search of articles in ABA Banking Journal going back to 1980, you may wish to use the Nexis proprietary database, which can be found on the web at
http://www.lexisnexis.com/. There is a charge to use this service.
Web sites are not always easy to get around, but we have endeavored to keep this one straightforward. If you find it difficult, or if you have any other comment regarding the site or its contents, we encourage you to contact us by e-mail at
ababj@sbpub.com, or call us at 212-620-7210.
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