Sentences with phrase «build railroad»

Build railroad tracks, airports, or buy ships to transport your goods from one town or factory to another, collect the revenue yourself.

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The Japanese are determined to build a railroad (later dubbed the «Death Railway») connecting Bangkok and Rangoon, through the impossible terrain of the jungles and mountains of Thailand, and they aim to use these POWs as their slave labor, including the engineers to design the massive undertaking.

Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States» Civil War.

Meanwhile, Chen's daughter Angelababy is dealing with a romantic suitor who's returned from the West with plans to build a railroad through Chen's village.

During WWII, the Japanese forced Allied POWs to build a railroad, which included constructing a bridge on the River Kwai.

(After wishing out loud that he could build a railroad to the moon, Jay then admits: «The first thing we'll do when we get there is hunt down the natives.»)

Many of the Indians who settled in East Africa were Muslims from the Bombay area who arrived in the region during the early days of British rule to build the railroad that runs from Mombasa on the coast of Kenya to Kampala, Uganda.

Bechtel is also the quintessential family business: It has been led, with a brief exception, by a succession of four family CEOs since cattle farmer Warren Bechtel founded the firm in 1898 to help build railroad lines.

It's kind of like building a railroad track, but it's not like it's time for Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion, where we have the East Coast colonized, and now we want to colonize the rest of the country.

In 1886 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Missouri Pacific Railroad both built railroad tracks heading west from the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in Kansas to Greeley County on the western border, roughly 200 miles away.

As citizens, he says, we value our big banks as paternalistic entities that built the railroads.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.

He said there hadn't been many man - eating lions around this part of the world since they built the railroad in Kenya.

They built a railroad to deliver materials and just decided to leave it down there and build over it when it wasn't needed anymore.

«This is New York, where the Vanderbilts built railroads, where Seymour Knox built Five - and - Dimes, and where Colin Powell reached for the stars,» Astorino said.

We dug canals, built railroads, built highways and telephone lines all so people could be interconnected.

The one - percenters are ALWAYS looking for a place to recreate the era when U.S. citizens (many of them immigrants) worked like slaves on building railroads, when women were crammed like sardines into sweatshops in lower Manhattan, when mills and tanneries dumped toxic fluids into rivers and streams as they pleased.

And for all its attempts at historical relevance (the story explores everything from the exploitation of Chinese workers to build the railroads to Native American genocide), there's no gravity or weight to anything in The Lone Ranger.

After briefly coming upon a truly horrific sight of hosts building railroad tracks out of the corpses of dead humans (or are they more hosts?)

(Calif.) From life - saving techniques to the contributions of Chinese immigrants in building the railroad, K - 12 curriculum in California schools is set for a new wave of updates and additions under legislation signed over the past week by the governor.

Accordingly, the Guggenheims began to develop large mining operations in Northern Mexico, Harrimans built railroads, Morgans, Hearsts, and Whitneys developed enormous livestock ranches, and so on, employing thousands of Mexican citizens until, inevitably, the revolution moved northward.

Ever since the British built the railroads in India that stitch that vast subcontinent together, trains have been the organizing force that unify all of its disparate parts.

[61] While building the railroad along the rugged Weber River Canyon, Mormon workers signed the Thousand Mile Tree which was lone tree alongside the track 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Omaha.

These families worked in the Log Wood and chicle business all the way into the Agua Blanca area of British Honduras, having even built a railroad.

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Building railroads at the turn of the century would not, in my mind, represent unreasonable progress, and railroal ties do come from trees which grow in the forests.

It is sort of like building railroads in the old days.

This is also where the Modesto & Empire Traction Company was founded, which built the railroad that opened up Modesto's transportation to other parts of the county.

See also William S. Linton In 1894, two years before Henry Morrison Flagler built his railroad, a former American Civil War major named Nathan Boynton first set eyes on the area that now bears his name.

The Italians were brought here to build railroads and dig tunnels, not to become lawyers and doctors.

Not exact matches

Buildings collapsed and burnt, sinkholes opened up, railroad tracks and cable cars were damaged.

He built up hotels, refurbished the decrepit railroads, established Florida's east - coast cities as tourist destinations, and more or less «founded» the Palm Beach and Miami we know today.

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

And then his own railroad built new tracks into western Kansas, too.

Railroads had the ability to condemn land to build their routes.

Seeing this problem as an opportunity, Wilgus suggested that New York Central Railroad build a new Park Avenue by leasing land to commercial builders where the old rail yard had stood.

The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.

And 2,700 miles from June's office in San Francisco, in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.

He got rich building Berkshire Hathaway Inc into a conglomerate with roughly 90 businesses including insurance, energy, chemical, apparel and food companies, plus a railroad.

It's like building the Union Pacific railroad,» Musk told a space conference, as he laid out a plan to bring travel to Mars to a mass market with tickets priced one day as low as $ 100,000.

Berkshire Hathaway has maintained a position in the apparel industry, but has also expanded significantly into fields like building products, retailing, logistics, utilities and railroads.

Space was at such a premium that the 150 - room Tiger Hotel, built on the canyon floor in 1887, necessarily straddled the main stream, and the railroad ran through its lobby.

In the early part of last century, it was the building out of railroads, resulting in skyrocketing real estate prices and ending in yet another crash of both Florida real estate and railroad stocks.

In 1856, the U.S. 34th Congress proposed a bill to commission the building of a Transcontinental Railroad.

The Central Pacific Railroad building East from Sacramento met the Union Pacific Railroad building West from Council Bluffs, Iowa at Promontory summit.

Similarly, railroads and utilities and master limited partnerships build up large infrastructure that is either protected from competition due to having a regulated monopoly, or it simply would be self - destructive for a competitor to try to copy, like building a new set of railroad tracks right alongside a competitor that can't get enough traffic to justify its costs since there's already an established route there.

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

Across the railroad tracks, over the river, and up on a hill are new homes built during the housing boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

She was daughter of Martín Amador, one of the most prominent citizens of the Mesilla Valley.7 In May 1908, García was preparing to build a house on land he owned facing the railroad depot by having a supply of adobes made.8 As time went by, he acquired numerous pieces of property throughout Las Cruces and Mesilla Park.