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in June 1894 that a remarkable 192 U.S. railroads, owning fully one-fourth of the rail mileage in the country, had fallen into receivership. Among these were the wobbly NP, which went down in August 1893, the equally shaky UP, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, now under the tutelage of Hill protégé Alan Manvel.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
grandstanding,
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
In this case, for Flagler, there was something of a carryover from his former life. All that experience in railroading was about to be put to use in an entirely different context, as he tried to make sense of one of the most chaotic rail systems in the United States.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
hard-bitten
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
For sheer grit and audacity, Harriman had few rivals, and he now proceeded on a daring, even reckless corporate raid that would shake Wall Street to its very foundations. Since Morgan and Hill had stonewalled his request for a one-third holding in the Burlington, he would proceed to attack them from the rear. He would, instead, stealthily buy contr
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AMERICAN ROYALTY
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
All at once, with American citizens, property, and commercial interests scattered all over the globe, there were decisions to be made: whether or not to send troops to protect them from imminent menace; decisions on how far to go in countering Russian expansion in Manchuria; on how to deal with Santo Domingo’s default on debts to European nations—a
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
AMERICAN ROYALTY