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...But the idea faces resistance, including on Capitol Hill....
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...At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where we first meet, the history she is exploring is that of America’s railroads, which linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts during the settlement of...
...Union Pacific and BNSF — a division of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway — were the two US railroads most directly affected by the closures, the association said....
...He also opened his State of the Union address in March by speaking about the urgency of helping Kyiv defeat the Russian invasion....
...The Pacific Railway Act gave “every alternate section of public land” to the railroad companies, within wide swaths on either side of the tracks....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...The state’s luxuriant landscape attracted James, heir to a vast American railroad and timber fortune and poet-patron of Surrealist painters....
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...Schiff rivalled John Pierpont Morgan’s standing on Wall Street — his reputation only enhanced when he orchestrated a rescue of Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1890s after Morgan had abandoned the assignment...
...The hedge fund holds a $1.6bn stake in Union Pacific, making it one of the railroad’s largest shareholders....
...Repeatedly call your trade policy “worker-centred” and the labour unions and their friends in Congress will be all over it like a wildcat strike....
...Back then, the countries of Pacific Asia were mostly in hub and spoke relationships with the US....
...But, overall, surveys chart a retreat in the democratic spirit after a high-water mark in the decade after the end of the Soviet Union and apartheid in the 1990s....
...A decade later, the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, sent shockwaves through America....
...A divided home front is not how the cold war against the Soviet Union was conducted....
...Railway stretch of railroad, the temporary — since 2016 — Arbutus Greenway runs from the Fraser River in the south almost to Granville Island in the north....
...Freight rail accounted for an estimated 28 per cent of US freight movements in 2020, according to an analysis of transportation department data by railroad operator Union Pacific....
...BNSF and Union Pacific, two of the biggest operators in North America, reported record profits in 2021....
...Post-it maker 3M, oilfield services company Halliburton, railroad operator Union Pacific and homebuilder DR Horton are also due to publish results....
...American Airlines, AT&T and Philip Morris will join Union Pacific in reporting before the opening bell, while railroad rival CSX and Whirlpool will report after the market closes....
...former Soviet Union....
...They include employees of the largest carriers in North America, such as Union Pacific, CSX and BNSF, a business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
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