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...determined, skilled President who captures a nation's imagination, energy and know-how can work miracles. Abraham Lincoln understood the enormous strength of American industry even while the country was being torn apart by the Civil War. He unleashed that force to build a railroad to the Pacific. Eighteen hundred miles of track were flung across prairies and mountains in four years...
...billion. The country's per capita output of goods and services has sunk to a level about 15% below where it was in 1978. Faced with a drop in oil revenues this year of at least $4 billion, Venezuela has shelved plans for construction of a new railroad, a steel mill and several highways. With an election coming in December, the government is already getting edgy about political unrest. Three journalists were jailed two weeks ago for criticizing the President...
...Huron Ave, bridge is one of 600 bridges which were taken over by the department in 1971, because the railroad companies which owned the bridges had insufficient funds to keep them in good shape...
...squat, mustard-colored building known as Bannon Street sits on a bend in the road, framed by railroad tracks, warehouses and an industrial park. Inside, the mood is as grim as the dull yellow walls. Rows of double bunk beds line the dormitories. "This reminds me of Dickens," grumbles Resident David Erickson, 33, an unemployed carpet layer. Indeed, Sacramento County in northern California has borrowed a page from the English novelist and revived a 19th century solution to economic hard times: the poorhouse...
...leading French literary figures, and in the post-World War II years surrounded herself with something of a Parisian Bloomsbury group that included André Gide, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali; in Cannes. Born in San Francisco of French parents, she married Frank Jay Gould, son of the railroad robber baron, in 1923; together they invested shrewdly in Riviera real estate and built the casino, and the cachet, that made their Juan-les-Pins resort famous...