Sublime

carts, coaches, carriages, broughams, cabriolets, gigs, coupes, landaus, clarences, barouches, all struggling in different directions.

a stench which would drive a donkey from his breakfast,)

George Brown had been working closely with Johnson for three years; Johnson’s initial nomination to Congress, in 1937, had, in fact, been brought about to ensure an immensely complicated transaction with a very simple central point: the firm in which George and his brother Herman were the principals—Brown & Root, Inc.—was building a dam near Au

From the time of Theodore Roosevelt, American presidents had advocated building the seaway, but had been thwarted by the powerful lobbying efforts mounted by American railroads, East and Gulf coast port authorities, coal mine operators in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and the United Mine Workers, led by the truculent John L. Lewis, all of whom be

Rails used during the nineteenth century weighed between 20 and 30 kg/m