Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many things went to make up the legend. Some were scandalous: the rail financing of the Credit Mobilier, the fiscal shenanigans of Rail Baron Jay Gould, the first great rail antitrust suit (when U.P. was forced to disgorge the railroads it had gobbled). But most of it was the stirring stuff of pioneering, typified by the track-laying gangs of wild Irishmen. They drove the rails of the U.P. west to meet the track-laying Chinese of the Central Pacific coming east, stood guzzling while the tracks were joined with a gold spike at Promontory Point, Utah...
...deep in debt when he was approached by a group of Britons who, like Sickles himself, had bought shares in the Erie Railroad and now feared the loss of their investments. Sickles made a sudden dash to New York, and in a lightning coup deposed the corrupt, redoubtable Jay Gould from the presidency of Erie. When the flabbergasted tycoon suggested that in future they team up together, Sickles knocked him senseless with his crutch, hurled him through a window (Gould landed in a bed of violets). Then Sickles rushed back to Madrid with a small fortune in his pocket...
Weighing all this, and satisfied that Kennedy's story had too many details to be suspect, A.P. Assistant General Manager Alan Gould gave the go-ahead. Then the A.P. sat back, waiting for the U.P., I.N.S. and SHAEF to catch up. Instead SHAEF called the story unauthorized, clamped a news embargo...
...opposed to the typewriter for them as wants it, but reliance upon it has caused certain people to become illiterate. Sincerely yours, Joe Gould New York...
...there for short periods about twenty years apart and I do not consider that my present address (Maison Gerard, 311 West 33 St., New York City--ed.) is in the Bowery. A hundred years from now when the Charles T. Copeland of that period lectures at Harvard on Joe Gould and his circle he will point out that my life has always been distinguished by the wide variety of my contacts...