In 1900 Wall Street was dominated by railroad stocks, for example.
Soviet officials wanted to transport larger loads of steel by railroad.
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Starting with the Gold Rush of 1849, California has been the destination of choice for Americans, with migrants coming originally in wagon trains over thousands of miles, then by railroad, by plane, and finally by car over interstate highways.
And they have been broken continuously since the first intercollegiate sporting event in the 1840s when Harvard allegedly used ringers against Yale in a boat race, sponsored by a railroad company.
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It had been my idea to have the picnic in the parks by the railroad tracks where my dad used to take me to watch the trains when I was a boy.
Lincoln did it when he built the Transcontinental Railroad by putting down seed money to the railroads to go build it.
And in a confused transaction that gives potential investors little confidence, the government leased land to Hutchison that was also needed by the Panama Railroad and the local airport authority.
After reporting concern about contamination, water quality tests performed by the Texas Railroad Commission found naturally-occurring levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, which exceeded the threshold limit for drinking water, but found no evidence to support a flaming water claim.
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We should not accept a school in South Carolina that was built in the 1800s, where kids are having to learn in trailers, and every time the railroad goes by the tracks, the building shakes and the teacher has to stop teaching.
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That accident involved a railroad corridor used by tens of thousands of commuters north of New York City.
No railroad was mentioned by name in the speeches that preceded the voting.
The railroad, introduced by the British, made it possible for handweavers to sell to larger regional and national markets, rather than just locally.
Since August the stock has been buoyed by takeover talk after Australian railroad-and-ports company Asciano boosted its stake in Brambles from 3.2% to 4.1%.
That transcontinental railroad, completed in 1893, was the only one built entirely with private money on privately purchased land, by a self-made railroad tycoon, James J.
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We see Albert being hit on the head by another boy from behind with a long wooden board later identified by authorities as a splintered railroad tie.
If they did, they would have known that the Union Pacific Railroad, organized by an act of Congress and backed by millions in government 30 year bonds, went bankrupt not once but twice.
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In 1929, there were 41, 000 miles of railroad in India, build by British engineers, British capital, and Indian labor.
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Clearwire garners bids almost weekly now for offers of help, money, moral support, or suitors who wish to save Pauline from the Perils of being tied by its abusive parent Sprint to the railroad tracks.
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Bryson, who was driving a Lexus, rear-ended a Buick occupied by three men that was stopped at a railroad crossing in San Gabriel, said a police statement.
Bryson, who was driving a Lexus, rear-ended a Buick occupied by three men that was stopped at a railroad crossing in San Gabriel, said the police statement Sunday.
Bryson, who was driving a Lexus, rear-ended a Buick occupied by three men that was stopped at a railroad crossing in San Gabriel, according to a police statement.
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Edwin Drake had no obvious qualifications to run the Seneca Oil Company except for two: as a retired railroad conductor, he could travel by train with a free pass, and--in what is required for the head of any start-up--he was very persistent by nature, indeed downright stubborn.
Expected in the deal are another 8, 000 kilometers of new railroad tracks to be built and run by the private sector.
When the railroad -- it's right next to a railroad, and when the train runs by, the whole building shakes and the teacher has to stop teaching for a while.
By then, two plots against U.S. railroad targets had already been foiled.
Roughly 20 years later, Clarence Birdseye revolutionized the distribution process by inventing a technique to make produce largely distributable via the railroad.
That will be done by building three pipelines, which will burrow under a highway and railroad.
But his offer was politely declined by the American president, who preferred the iron horse and the railroad.
The drilling technique, which uses sand, water and chemicals under high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from rock formations, has helped Eagle Ford oil production grow by 184% last year compared with 2011, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state's oil and gas exploration and production.
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