The central figure, an arriviste financier, creates a pyramid scheme in which railroads of the New World figure prominently.
(The Santa Fe's actions might have been perfectly legal. In any case, this was an era in which railroads were used to getting their way.
In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's (ICC) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.
The United States is the only country in the world in which the railroads are not nationalized (except 50‐50 Canada), and it is also the only industrial nation in the world in which railroad travel has almost ceased to exist.
The New Yorker, October 29, 1938 P. 13 One of the whimsies in which railroad systems indulge themselves in is allowing any celebrity who happens to be aboard a train to get up in the locomotive and pretend to run it.
By Hope Fay and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, October 29, 1938 P. 13 One of the whimsies in which railroad systems indulge themselves in is allowing any celebrity who happens to be aboard a train to get up in the locomotive and pretend to run it.
To understand why, imagine a world without regulation, one in which railroad track gauges are divergent, food and drugs are released without trials and buildings are built on a whim.
Many critics have also noted the woeful absence of legal protections and transparency in the system, which railroads detainees through overloaded immigration courts, often without representation.
There's something in our culture and in our common pop culture about songs about the railroad, in which the railroad becomes a metaphor for aspiration, for heartbreak, for death.
In the open market, which railroad workers like Mr. Peulic and Mr. Savic say they cannot afford, oil can be had for 50 or 60 dinars, she said, while sugar is 25.
Rumors had begun to spread in February of that year that Blaine had been involved in a transaction with the Union Pacific Railroad in which the railroad had paid Blaine $64,000 for some Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad bonds he owned, even though the bonds were nearly worthless; in essence, the alleged transaction was a sham designed to bribe Blaine.
