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Tarbell especially romanticized—men whose lives ran “swift and ruddy and joyous . . . until a big hand reached out from nobody knew where, to steal their conquest and throttle their future.” But the hard fact was that with two or three exceptions, the region’s refiners were among the least efficient of all. As production technology shifted to favor
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For highways, Moses dispossessed 250,000 persons. For his other projects—Lincoln Center, the United Nations, the Fordham, Pratt and Long Island University campuses, a dozen mammoth urban renewal projects—he dispossessed tens of thousands more; there are available no accurate figures on the total number of people evicted from their homes for all
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