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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this last sentence is untrue, so let's correct it and say: "It was not-and is not-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...every foot of it is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea. Quite a way up in the air-far above the Moffat road's modest 11,600 feet-but let us consider the Central of Peru, which was- and probably still is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...
...When William Randolph Hearst was very young," once wrote Arthur Brisbane, "when he was running the San Francisco Examiner after leaving Harvard, he complained to his father, U. S. Senator George Hearst, that so many men were fools. Father Hearst replied: 'That's true, Willie. But let us not be too hard on fools. If there were not so many of them life would be less easy for you, for me and for some others...
...Let these men be known as U. S. musicians would be known? "laborers in the field of music"?and automatically there will be restriction upon their entrance. Restaurants, jazz orchestras, show producers will have to fall back upon the 138,000 union musicians. They will not be able to lure the beggared fiddlers of Europe to the U. S. with wages that appear fabulous to the foreigner though equal to only half the current scale...