Sentences with phrase «by railroads in»

RRB are a form of retirement income for people employed by railroads in the United States.

Railroad Retirement Benefits are a form of retirement income for people employed by railroads in the United States.

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The 69 - year - old railroad veteran stormed into Canadian Pacific in June 2012 after a proxy battle led by activist investor Bill Ackman and has made good on his promise to repair the underperforming company.

The 13 - bedroom waterfront home, at 235 Middle Neck Road in Sands Point, was once owned by Mary Harriman Rumsey, a railroad heiress whose brother, W. Averell Harriman, was governor of New York.

The first followed the Panic of 1837, which triggered downturns in states that had invested in canals and railroads, or that had insolvent state - run banks (this latter problem is echoed by Puerto Rico, whose Government Development Bank is in deep trouble).

By the time he retired in 2009, virtually all competing railroads were imitating at least portions of his approach.

FOUNDED: by Neal A. DeAngelo and Paul DeAngelo in 1978 BUSINESS: Provides weed - control services for railroads, utilities, and large industrial sites START - UP CAPITAL: $ 2,000 ESTIMATED 1997 REVENUES: $ 12 million

Across India and much of Africa, the British Empire rolled out its railroads on its own terms and primarily for its own needs — to better extract local resources by connecting mines with ports, and to more quickly deploy its officials and troops in order to bolster its imperial expansion.

We are also fortunate to be served by two Class I railroads and 24 short - line companies, giving our state the No. 7 rank in rail mileage, with nearly 5,000 miles of railroad track, the largest railroad network in the Southeast.

«Our plan,» Ackman wrote in a letter to CP's board, «is to transform Canadian Pacific from the worst performing railroad in North America into one of the best by effectuating a cultural and operational transformation of Canadian Pacific, which begins with a new leader.»

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.

Indeed, although FRA supplanted the ICC as the agency responsible for promulgating and enforcing railroad safety programs in 1966, see Department of Transportation Act of 1966, 49 U.S.C. 103, the general framework established by the order of March 13, 1911 is still in existence today.

The following year Fisk joined Drew and Gould in protecting their control of the Erie Railroad from Cornelius Vanderbilt by issuing fraudulent stock.

(3) regulatory policy to keep the prices charged by natural monopolies such a railroads, power and gas companies in line with actual production costs plus normal profit.

Its railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, is one of the largest in the country, raking in $ 23 billion in revenue last year by operating on a track network of 32,500 miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces.

In 1907, the city's name was changed to Tomball in honor of local congressman Thomas Henry Ball, who helped to develop the Port of Houston by convincing the railroad to run a line through downtown area of the citIn 1907, the city's name was changed to Tomball in honor of local congressman Thomas Henry Ball, who helped to develop the Port of Houston by convincing the railroad to run a line through downtown area of the citin honor of local congressman Thomas Henry Ball, who helped to develop the Port of Houston by convincing the railroad to run a line through downtown area of the city.

After Austria's state - owned railroad, in 2009, reported a $ 1.3 billion loss caused by writing down the value of interest rate swaps, it successfully sued Deutsche Bank on the grounds that the lender had not disclosed the risks associated with the derivative.

The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves.

I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.

While Buffett delivered harsh words about BNSF that year, in his 2015 letter he credited Rose by name with the railroad's turnaround.

First proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the initiative would develop and construct a vast network of railroads and shipping lanes between China and 65 countries in Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Railroad stocks proceeded to sink by 50 % from 1846 to 1850 (Odlyzko, 2010), a plunge that was exacerbated when railroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (CamplinRailroad stocks proceeded to sink by 50 % from 1846 to 1850 (Odlyzko, 2010), a plunge that was exacerbated when railroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (Camplinrailroad companies called in the remaining 90 % of the money that they had lent to stock investors as a part of their promotional scheme (Camplin, 2010).

The railroad giant topped out and sold off in January after beating fourth quarter earnings estimates by 8 cents and matching the revenue consensus.

CT's past coverage of North Korea includes a canceled plan by South Koreans to light up the border at Christmas time, an interview with the author of Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad, and Carl Moeller's top 5 books on Christianity in North Korea.

Escape from North Korea, the Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad, by journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes how Chinese Christians and churches are supporting escapees in defiance of laws prohibiting such assistance.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

I spent a summer in the 1950s working on the railroad by day and reading Sartre and Marx by night.

Perishable freight and passenger traffic were carried by steamboats until the railroad was established in 1868.

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.

The name of this dish is inspired by the promotional slogan that appeared on crates of California fruits shipped across the country in the decades following the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

But the cynic in me notes that the players think they got railroaded by bad leadership last time, so they may want to claw back some territory.

The startled trainer who learned much of his trade by working for Ben Jones in the late»30s took one look at Silver Spoon as she hobbled onto the railroad siding and rushed to phone Farm Manager Balding.

The model railroaders are allotted a 20 - by - 30 room in the clubhouse where they have set up and are forever playing with toy railroad systems.

In 2018 we'll never go on a quest down some railroad tracks to find a dead body like in Stand By MIn 2018 we'll never go on a quest down some railroad tracks to find a dead body like in Stand By Min Stand By Me.

By slapping Standard Oil in 1907 with a record $ 29,240,000 fine for accepting rebates from a railroad, and summoning old John D. Rockefeller himself from New York to testify in Chicago, Landis received worldwide publicity.

One such story, given rather wide circulation by a sportscaster and printed in at least two books, had it that years ago a young Chicagoan who later became an official of the Missouri Pacific Railroad so idolized the White Stockings that he named nine Kansas way stations after his heroes when he grew up.

Despite a bicycle kick goal by Mario Manduzikic, and going into halftime tied 1 - 1, Juventus got railroaded in the second half and ended up with a Level IV: Broken Axle game.

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Ground is expected to be broken in 2001 for a long - planned pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Wheaton, near where a 12 - year - old girl was struck and killed by a train in 1993.

Most recently, Park District officials backed off from plans for a proposed skate park in Kendall Park just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad after being bombarded by resident complaints.

Some of the first land acquisitions made by the new Park District included the dedication of Memorial Park by the Village (originally donated to the Village in 1883 by Dr. John Best as the site for a soldier's memorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern right of way.

The Park District began moving towards a recreation program by erecting the first community Christmas Tree in 1926 and allowing the Business Men's Association to build a bandstand in one of the railroad parks in 1929.

The park — which is being built over the old railroad yard in the northwest corner of Grant Park — will cost $ 230 million and is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2001, a year after Mayor Richard M. Daley's original target.

By the mid 1960's the Railroad Parks, which served as the catalyst in the formation of the Arlington Heights Park District, had been turned into parking lots.

Kendall Park, just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, was the original preferred site, but, after being bombarded by complaints from residents, officials backed off from building a skate park in any neighborhood park.

The board also annexed one house at 0N433 Cumnor Ave.. That home is in a small unincorporated neighborhood just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that became completely surrounded by village boundaries after trustees incorporated 29 houses along Crescent Boulevard from 1995 to 1999, and then annexed an additional 15 houses on Cumnor, Scott and Clifton Avenues and Ellynwood Drive in 2002.

This summer Park District officials backed off from plans for a proposed skate park in Kendall Park, just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, after being bombarded by resident complaints.

The depot, which had been donated to the society in 1980 by the Soo Railroad Line, was moved to its current location nine years ago.

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