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A few weeks later he capitalized the new corporation (which included other steel mills, railroads, mines, steamships, and ore lands) at $1.
The proliferation of railroads, then the automobile, and later the airplane made this a country of mobile, ambitious newcomers.
1990s gangsta rap is rhythmically simple and harmonically negligible, 1890s ballads are melodically simple and harmonically negligible, but the effect is the same: Even as the subject matter in each case proclaims its modernity (railroads and telephone on the one hand, guns and crack on the other), in both cases, the music underneath belies it.
For the last eight months coal miners in the east, who haven't received a paycheck for nearly a year, have stopped working and blocked railroads.
Railroads preceded settlers into many parts of the United States, and every few miles a siding had to be built so that trains could pull off the track and wait for others to pass.