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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....
...Adam Carroll, a Hudson Valley-based estate agent with Compass, mostly works with high net worth buyers who are browsing in the area....
...Turnpikes and then a railroad connected it to the Ohio valley. That essential argument for Baltimore remains today....
...You drive into Yellowstone National Park, one of the nation’s great legacies, down into the Lamar Valley, and then fish on the winding Soda Butte Creek while bison graze in the distance....
...Originally called The Towers, it was owned by the railroad magnate Robert Young and his wife Anita O’Keeffe (sister of artist Georgia O’Keeffe)....
...Small accounts were among the bidders this past week that helped send shares of the railroad-to-confectioner conglomerate to a record high, DD’s Eric Platt reports....
...It’s a naturally heated pool, with restaurant and rooms, set within a dramatic Wild West landscape about 30 minutes’ drive from Yellowstone National Park’s northern entrance....
...He has inserted himself in a railroad takeover drama, challenged the Italian government and weighed in on Rupert Murdoch’s dealmaking....
...June 17-September 4, bso.org Bard SummerScape Eight weeks of music, opera, dance and theatre make up the 19th Bard SummerScape at the Fisher Center in the Hudson Valley, New York....
...He moved to a grey clapboard house with white shutters in Locust Valley, Long Island....
...Priced out of beach areas like the Hamptons or the river towns of the Hudson Valley, where many affluent New Yorkers own second homes, we thought that the western portion of the Catskill Mountains, a rural...
...However, a range of younger technology stocks hyped up in Silicon Valley over recent years have disappointed in their growth outlook recently and their shares have fallen dramatically....
...He charted vistas bounded by large masses: a channel separating two islands, a pair of peaks parted by a valley, a gulch between southwestern hoodoo rock-spires....
...Railroads in the mid-western US faced possible bankruptcies....
...rail deal UK hedge fund manager Chris Hohn has demanded CN abandon its $34bn pursuit of Kansas City Southern and the resignations of chair Robert Pace and chief executive Jean-Jacques Ruest after the US railroad...
...Wu has described the wealth and power of Big Tech companies — particularly Facebook, Google and Amazon — as creating a “new gilded age” akin to the late-19th and early 20th-century era of US railroad-building...
...(Bloomberg) Big Tech’s buyback boom As much of corporate America comes under fire for diverting its spare cash into share repurchases, the practice has grown rampant in Silicon Valley....
...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...
...That would, in essence, turn the company into exactly what railroad and telecom monopolies ultimately became — regulated utilities....
...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....
...Such conversations are neither anti-free market nor anti-American, though both arguments have been used by President Trump and Silicon Valley tech executives....
...New York benefited from railroad links that let it gradually take some of New Orleans’ natural market in the Mississippi Valley....
...Scott’s efforts to create the second transcontinental railroad....
...He dropped out of Utah Valley State College after one semester, then moved in 2003 to the small Utah city of St George....
...Urban parks in cities such as New York and London, as well as the wide-open spaces of Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Colorado Rockies, offer Google Street View-style “virtual tours”....
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