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Pratt hired Gould to survey a tanning site, but was sufficiently impressed that he made him a partner and manager of the projected new tannery. So the pint-sized Gould, barely out of his teens, led fifty workmen into the woods and built virtually a full-scale town, including living and food service quarters, a mule-powered bark crushing plant and

Eisenhower is personally responsible for the interstate highway system—the largest public works project ever attempted.

Flagler poured his own money into an extensive program of public works, giving employment to a sizable labor force engaged in road and sidewalk building, port improvements, and the expansion of health-care facilities. By the spring of 1900 the epidemic had been controlled, and the quarantine lifted. Miami was on the road to a startling recovery:

Robert Moses had shifted the parkway south of Otto Kahn’s estate, south of Winthrop’s and Mills’s estates, south of Stimson’s and De Forest’s. For men of wealth and influence, he had moved it more than three miles south of its original location. But James Roth possessed neither money nor influence. And for James Roth, Robert Moses would not move

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At a ball that evening, Florida’s governor, Albert Gilchrist, lauded Flagler yet again, issuing a proclamation that stated, “The building of this great oversea railroad is of nationwide importance, second in importance only to the construction of the Panama Canal.” President William H. Taft sent along a personal note of congratulations. But by this

the use of power need not become the abuse of power.

But on this day Ole Kirk—now threatened with bankruptcy—needed to step up and protect the Lion House and the workshop from the law.