Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany, Calif., Contractor G. De Gaeta bought two lots, started to put up two houses. When the second house was almost finished, Builder De Gaeta found he had built the houses on someone else's property, a full block from the land he had bought...
...monotonous procession the great figures of the post-Civil War period follow each other-all up to their ears in political intrigues, angling for Federal land grants, corrupting legislatures, double-crossing the public, their stockholders and each other so consistently that it seems remarkable the railroads ever got built...
...route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line he surveyed across the mountains, rising 7,000 feet in less than 20 miles, was the boldest feat of railroad engineering undertaken up to that time...
...shopkeeping partners had none of his vision. Under the terms of the Central Pacific's Government grant, the company got loans of from $16,000 to $48,000 per mile, depending on the nature of the territory through which the road passed. While it was still being built through the Sacramento Valley, Judah was asked by his partners to testify that it was in the foothills, so that the company would receive $16,000 more for each mile of track. Unwilling to be a party to this miracle of moving mountains, Judah resigned, died soon after. This left...
Crocker. After the road was finished, each partner believed he had been principally responsible. But big, blunt, bearded Charley Crocker simply said, "I built the Central Pacific," and let it go at that...