John Moody
John Moody
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The panic of 1837, the contest of the United States Bank with President Jackson, its defeat, and its subsequent failure as a state bank, the consequent distress in local financial circles--all conspired to shift the monetary center of the country to New York.
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The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.
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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property
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In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government
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When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period
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Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
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With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
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While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points
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The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California
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People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
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We've had games where we've strung together hits and scored bunches of runs, but I guess the law of averages caught up with us tonight.
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We paid off our loan and had some extra dollars to do some other things. And we love our new pool.
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The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.