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John Moody has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an…
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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the…
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As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies…
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Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general…
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Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these…
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Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
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In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted…
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In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal…
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Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were…
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People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future…
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The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief…
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The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of…
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,…
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great…
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He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head…
— Unknown Author
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served…
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You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the…
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936,…
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