Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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Page 87
... became apparent . New York's Erie Railroad , for example , was begun in 1833 with an estimated construction cost of three million dollars . By the time it was completed from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Hudson , in 1851 , its actual ...
... became apparent . New York's Erie Railroad , for example , was begun in 1833 with an estimated construction cost of three million dollars . By the time it was completed from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Hudson , in 1851 , its actual ...
Page 165
... became President of the United States and waved his fist under J. P. Morgan's nose . If all this was supposed to induce a sense of security , it seems to have failed badly . At the age of sixty he was still waving the flag and screaming ...
... became President of the United States and waved his fist under J. P. Morgan's nose . If all this was supposed to induce a sense of security , it seems to have failed badly . At the age of sixty he was still waving the flag and screaming ...
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... became almost socially obligatory . Mixed parties swarmed up to the curtained grills of speakeasies and uttered the mystic password , and girls along with men stood at the speakeasy bar with one foot on the old brass rail . The late ...
... became almost socially obligatory . Mixed parties swarmed up to the curtained grills of speakeasies and uttered the mystic password , and girls along with men stood at the speakeasy bar with one foot on the old brass rail . The late ...
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