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...In 1894, Pullman workers went on strike after George Pullman cut wages, igniting a boycott that affected much of the US railroad network....
...rail group Canadian Pacific is set to present a new, higher offer to buy Kansas City Southern, worth about $31bn, including debt, in a move that is set to revive the takeover battle for the US freight railroad...
...The Canadian runs the group’s sprawling portfolio of non-insurance investments, which include the Burlington Northern Railroad he once oversaw as chief and Dairy Queen ice cream....
...That would, in essence, turn the company into exactly what railroad and telecom monopolies ultimately became — regulated utilities....
...He dropped out of Utah Valley State College after one semester, then moved in 2003 to the small Utah city of St George....
...Steel, Anaconda Copper Mining Company and the New York Central Railroad Company....
...Ultimately, the Silicon Valley monopolies should be broken up, as every other natural monopoly, from railroads to telephones to utilities, was before. It won’t happen soon....
...Glencore is selling its coal haulage business in Australia’s Hunter Valley for A$1.14bn ($874m) to US railroad company Genesee & Wyoming as part of efforts to reduce its debt burden....
...It is understandable, therefore, that Enda Kenny, the prime minister, is seeking to railroad his cabinet into lining up behind a court appeal. Yet that position is awkward, too....
...Each generation’s cutting-edge technology inevitably fades into the everyday miracle, as the television, electricity and railroads once did....
...By building an experimental network, the Silicon Valley stalwart intended to show how things should be done....
...Canada has imposed new regulations to force railroads to move set amounts of grain each week....
...The company, the second-largest US eastern railroad, said shipments of chemicals, automotive and metal goods surged during the three months, offsetting a decline in coal....
...US Class I railways – the biggest operators – moved 88,026 carloads of crude oil in the first six months of 2012, against 65,751 in the whole of 2011, according to the Association of American Railroads....
...Buying a railroad is a sound way to gain cash dividends, and broad exposure to companies that need coal and freight, but not to invest in innovation....
...It was “just a sad-looking country town, even though it had a railroad track to it”, according to Walton’s wife, Helen. Sam died in 1992, Helen in 2007....
...This was the original Hewlett-Packard, started in the clichéd Silicon Valley garage, but in 1938, not 1998....
...Railroad employees sell beer, wine, spirits and snacks on the trains, giving commuters a chance to unwind after a day of work....
...The old pattern of US business regulation was to allow big companies – railroads, utilities, food monopolies – a free hand as long as they were dynamic and innovative....
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