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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
To Hill, it became ever more clear that the entire valley, all the way to the shores of Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg, was about to become one giant wheat field. In this enterprise, just as in the fuel business, Jim Hill’s behavior foretold future and larger happenings. He quickly moved from tough, all-out competition to an accord with the opposition
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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Harley had decided to give up on lawn care and go to work installing residential gas pipelines. There
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
they too now saw looming before them the prospect of a mighty transcontinental railroad. This, the prize of what for most of them was their homeland, was the Canadian Pacific (CP). For George Stephen and Donald Smith, the CP would become the royal road to the highest ranks of Canadian and British society; but for James J. Hill and John S. Kennedy,
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