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...”, according to the V&A Museum’s Christopher Turner, writing in Apollo magazine in 2021....
...They were amassed between 1900 and 1930 by Archer Huntington, heir to a railroad fortune and a man in flight, seeking in exotic under-developed Spain a refuge from the new American industrial society that...
...Guedes said the country had entered a “V-shaped” recovery and would grow as much as 2.1 per cent next year, aided by investment commitments from the private sector of more than $100bn....
...Mike Lewis, head of US equities cash trading at Barclays, said that while he expected the drop in the stock market to be shortlived, investors were no longer baking in a powerful V-shaped recovery....
...(FT) Railroad deal is the biggest of the year Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $28.9bn, including debt, in the largest takeover so far this year....
...can prove that the railroad’s actions harm buyers in Chicago....
...The writer is the FT’s West Coast managing editor Man v machine moments As America industrialised in the 19th century, a star railroad worker named John Henry is said to have started a rock-drilling contest...
...It emphasised how debates about the impact of technology on ethics, culture, freedom, and privacy had been recurrent themes throughout history in relation to the printing press, gas lighting, railroads,...
...his work on South Africa’s Zeitz MOCAA and Amanda Levete discusses the V&A....
...The players blare out the lyrics: “Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder/ I was caught/ In the middle of a railroad track.” The words sum up Atlético’s self-image....
...The paintings on show are accompanied by the artist’s brief notes on each subject, breathless in their breadth of vision: “Rolls-Royce to Railroads to Air India....
...US railroads going bust over a century ago....
...Ms Etro called the combination “folk couture”, referencing as it did cultures from Mongolia to Uzbekistan as viewed through a window on the trans-Siberian railroad and the wardrobe of Nijinsky, but all that...
...What of the railroad bubble of the 1870s or the periodic booms and busts of capitalism’s gilded age?...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...By the time they were in their 30s and 40s, the US was undergoing a massive industrial transformation – railroads, steel, manufacturing – and the opportunities were remarkable for those in that place at...
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
...It was literally the picks and shovels of the railroad boom....
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