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...The grand plan was a railroad, linking the discontinuous nation with nearly 2,000 miles of fresh track between the midwest and California, which would be famously completed with a golden spike in Utah in...
...That simple idea has been rigorously applied to every Black Crows product ever since — from chevron-patterned water bottles to down jackets with V-shaped baffles — giving the company an instantly recognisable...
...Louis Vuitton’s flat-top trunk had been developed a couple of decades earlier, enabling luggage to be stacked on trains and ocean liners, both then new modes of transport....
...It was typically atypical: the Grand Palais was transformed into an airport, a multi-million-euro construction built for a single sitting before a select audience of 2,500....
...What of the railroad bubble of the 1870s or the periodic booms and busts of capitalism’s gilded age?...
...The theatre’s elegant foyer is pretty well impassable: vast trunks of sound gear and lighting rig cram the space where audiences will soon gather for the first preview....
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
...His own father worked as a porter on the trains on the Frisco tracks that ran through Tulsa, carrying passengers from St Louis to San Francisco....
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