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When day breaks, church bells ring in Temple, Texas, founded in 1881 astride the rail line south of Waco and not far from modern-day Fort Hood, the largest military base in the free world. Temple's churches fill on Sunday, and as the white sun climbs higher, hymns are sung and sermons spoken. Down at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Convention Center, parishioners of Temple Bible Church finish their prayers and stream out into the noonday heat, and the bright light that bears down on the town, bleaching its low buildings against the prairie...
...Michigan Opera, two zoos, Canada (across the Detroit River) and an industry which is the backbone of the nation's economy Construction has been increasing following Detroit's AAA bond rating and has resulted in the development of high rise riverfront apartments, a downtown office/shopping/ apartment/hotel complex, a light rail transit system, and other projects. And yes, Detroiters can also be proud of their Tiger's success. Yet despite all of this, Doctoroff unbelievably writes that Detroit "gives its citizens almost nothing in which they can take pride...
...year since 1980. An additional 60 million day trippers from such nearby cities as Munich, Salzburg and Milan have motored through the passes and hiked through the high pasturelands annually. The Alps, once an almost insurmountable barrier between north and south, are now crossed by some 50 airlines, seven rail services and 30 major highways...
...quite, but it did reach at least to American farmers. At the time they did most of their shopping at inefficient, local general stores, where they paid high prices and had limited choices. But a growing rail and post office network, with Chicago as the hub, was beginning to turn farmers into a cohesive market. Montgomery Ward had published a catalog for them since the 1870s, but Richard Sears perfected the technique beyond anyone's imagination. Using the expanding rail system that he knew so well and capitalizing on the rapid growth of post-Civil War America, Sears turned...
...three days after the Nixon Administration rejected a company plea for $200 million in loan guarantees. Bankruptcy, however, turned out to be only an intermediate stop. To keep the railroad running, the following year Washington provided up to $125 million in guarantees and later absorbed the company's rail operations into Conrail, the Government-run railroad. Now a diversified manufacturer (1983 sales: $2.5 billion) with operations ranging from energy exploration to the production of missile systems-but not the railroad business-the reorganized Penn Central earned $19.7 million last year...