45 Quotations by John Moody
- 1. A minority investment, even though it be as low as ten or twenty per cent, usually constitutes a dom ...
- 2. After the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, the Legislature of New York directed a survey of a stat ...
- 3. As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and populat ...
- 4. As late as 1842 a train was started only when sufficient traffic was waiting along the road to warra ...
- 5. But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation... and diffusing among ...
- 6. By 1880 four different lines of railroad were running through to the Pacific States, and a fifth, th ...
- 7. By this time Vanderbilt had achieved a great reputation as a man who created values, earned dividend ...
- 8. Canals might indeed linger for a time as feeders... but every one now realized that the railroad was ...
- 9. Carrying out this policy of promoting harmony among competing lines, the New York Central and Pennsy ...
- 10. Even the New York Central system in 1866 was practically a single-track road; and the Commodore coul ...
- 11. For under the Commodore's magic touch the Harlem Railroad for the first time in its long history beg ...
- 12. Having obtained control of the New York Central, the Hudson River, and the Harlem railroads, Commodo ...
- 13. In 1862, when the charter was granted by the United States Government for the construction of a rail ...
- 14. In 1906 the Pennsylvania began to dispose of the bulk of its holdings in competing properties, the m ...
- 15. In the earlier days of railroading, and especially in the long period which came to an end with the ...
- 16. In this wise the Commodore not only added millions to his already growing fortune but also made hims ...
- 17. It had opened up millions of acres to cultivation, given homesteads to millions of people, many of w ...
- 18. It was a simple matter to find fault with the railroad; it has always been its fate to arouse the op ...
- 19. Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both ...
- 20. On July 18, 1858, the first through train passed over the entire line from Philadelphia via Mount Jo ...
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