45 Quotations by John Moody
- 21. People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practical ...
- 22. Perhaps more than any other one person, Cassatt foresaw the approach of the day when New York City a ...
- 23. Since the through line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh was opened, not a single year has passed with ...
- 24. The early seventies were not a time of great prosperity in the newly opened West, and the farmers, l ...
- 25. The Erie Railroad control was always nominally for sale, and, as the annual election approached, a m ...
- 26. The Erie Railroad system was foreshadowed in the time of Queen Anne, when the Colony of New York app ...
- 27. The financial condition of the Erie at this time manifested the beginning of that general policy of ...
- 28. The Flying Dutchman, one of the cars devised to furnish motive power, provided for the horse or mule ...
- 29. The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
- 30. The outstanding dramatic event in the story of the modern Northern Pacific was the famous corner whi ...
- 31. The panic of 1837 interfered with the work, but in 1838 the state Legislature came forward with a co ...
- 32. The panic of 1837, the contest of the United States Bank with President Jackson, its defeat, and its ...
- 33. The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became ...
- 34. The railroad is sprung from the application of two fundamental ideas - one the use of a mechanical m ...
- 35. The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it w ...
- 36. The Santa Fe Route, or the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, which has in modern times develop ...
- 37. The subsequent history of the Vanderbilt lines is chiefly a story of business expansion and growth. ...
- 38. The ultimate plan, which proved too visionary, was to consolidate under one control a vast network o ...
- 39. The upshot of the matter was that Morgan devised a plan for the sale of a large amount of Vanderbilt ...
- 40. The Vanderbilt family no longer possesses a majority interest in the stock, or anything which approa ...
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