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Only eleven airlines fly the 285,000 miles of U.S. trunk routes, and seven American steamship lines dock in U.S. ports. By contrast, nearly 100 railroads -the greatest conglomeration anywhere in the world-compete unevenly over 214,000 miles of Class I track, both among themselves and with a growing number of trucks, buses, automobiles and barges. The result is massive inefficiency and chronic headaches for the U.S. railroad industry, which has failed to keep pace with the vast changes in public transportation...
...Overmastering Lust. Yet Julian's real mistress is the great river. As soon as he can shove politics aside, he presses on to the Concession territory itself; this voyage of discovery, upriver for more than a thousand miles by steamship and motor launch, is the central theme of the book. Cora Almeida is put aboard by her husband to seduce Julian away from his loyalty to the Concession. The temptation is painful; in bracing contrast to most fiction today, it is overmastered by youthful lust for adventure and exploration...
When steam forced Webb to close his yards, he became an investor. In 1889, with big profits from the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and the Panama Railroad, he created Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders-the first and still the only college in the U.S. devoted solely to naval architecture and marine engineering (though comparable courses are offered by M.I.T. and the University of Michigan). Webb's bequest of $2,500,000, now grown to $8,000,000, pays 70% of the school's operating expenses. Alumni and industry make up the rest, helping...
...Turkish response was swift, and spurred on by almost daily violent demonstrations against the U.S. embassy, for the Turks interpret U.S. policy as favoring the Greeks (the Greeks interpret it as favoring Turkey). The Makarios regime was informed that the passenger steamship Amiassa would anchor off the Cypriot port of Famagusta and its 335 unarmed replacements would land, if permitted, while an equal number of unarmed outgoing troops, under United Nations escort, would board the Amiassa and sail home. If the replacements were not allowed to land, said Ankara, a Turkish army would invade Cyprus under naval escort...
...vital force in opening up the Canadian West, the investor-owned C.P.R. was long the slumbering giant of Canadian business. It took pride in being the "world's most complete transportation system," with $2.9 billion in assets, including its own 17,000-mile railroad network, a steamship company, an airline and even a chain of hotels to serve them. But until recently, it got a very small profit return on these vast assets; it allowed its operations to become antiquated, competing air and highway traffic to steal away earnings and its ships, hotels and airline to slip into...