For Royal Dutch Shell, maybe the action needs to stretch out to 2028 to take the risk out of an Arctic platform or a transcontinental pipeline.
While the first transcontinental railroad was a financial disaster for both investors and U.S. taxpayers, the line continued to provide valuable service to customers even after going into receivership.
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For Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ), maybe the action needs to stretch out to 2028 to take the risk out of an Arctic platform or a transcontinental pipeline.
Dwight Eisenhower's support for the Interstate highway system was rooted in a disastrous transcontinental convoy that bogged down on dilapidated roads early in his army career.
The interstate was an entity of its own, a kind of transcontinental neighborhood filled with single people who hung out in the neighborhood places.
But overnight, the transcontinental railroad laid the way for a nationwide economy, not a bunch of local economies, but a nationwide economy.
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It reminds Utahns of the transcontinental railroad, completed in Utah with a golden spike in 1869.
Western Union, which built the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861, is a powerful brand with a leading 17% market share.
After finishing the last claim, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master appointed by John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, to run the fund, took a five-day, transcontinental rail trip, his first break since the fund began.
Aero Toy Store is based at Fort Lauderdale in Florida and describes itself on a website as "a full service global dealer in transcontinental aircraft".
Bill with Franklin Roosevelt, or Medicare with Lyndon Johnson, it was a Republican, Lincoln, who launched the Transcontinental Railroad, the National Academy of Sciences, land grant colleges.
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Of course, by 1940, commercial air service had been hauling transcontinental freight, passengers, and mail for more than a decade, and doing so largely as a result of the incentive of Lindbergh's solo feat and his industrious efforts as a million-dollar-a-year consultant to the newly organized airlines.
So too is the transcontinental development of roads, railways and pipelines, laid at a dizzying pace.
By diverting time and resources towards manned moon landings, the US government may have delayed useful exploitation of space by decades (a similar argument can be made against the original transcontinental railroad).
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Ann Cryer, the MP for Keighley, a town near Bradford with a large Pakistani population, reckons that as many as 80% of Muslim marriages in the area are transcontinental.
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