This Agreement, Made This, the Seventh Day of March, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-seven, by and Between the Western Union Telegraph Company, a Corporation Organized Under the Laws of the State of New York, Party of the First Part, and the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and Telegraph Company, Organized and Existing Under and by Virtue of the Laws of the State of Colorado, Party of the Second Part, Hereinafter Respectively Designated as the Telegraph Company, and the Railway Company, Witnesseth ...

This Agreement, Made This, the Seventh Day of March, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-seven, by and Between the Western Union Telegraph Company, a Corporation Organized Under the Laws of the State of New York, Party of the First Part, and the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and Telegraph Company, Organized and Existing Under and by Virtue of the Laws of the State of Colorado, Party of the Second Part, Hereinafter Respectively Designated as the Telegraph Company, and the Railway Company, Witnesseth ...
Author: Western Union Telegraph Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 1899
Genre: Telegraph
ISBN:

Agreement to purchase "all the telegraph material, including poles, wire, insulators, instruments and battery now in use upon the line of said railway from Pueblo, Colorado, to El Moro, Colorado, and from Cucharas, Colorado to La Veta, Colorado ..."

The Economics of Railroad Safety

The Economics of Railroad Safety
Author: Ian Savage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146155571X

The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.

So Shall Ye Reap

So Shall Ye Reap
Author: Joan London
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1970
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The story of the farm labor movement from its roots in the nineteenth century to the conclusion of the graps strike.

Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation
Author: Eric Schlosser
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0547750331

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Hoosiers and the American Story

Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0871953633

A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.