Sentences with phrase «railroad baron»

Ticket to Ride is a fantastic family game because it is easy to learn, plays fairly quickly, and appeals to players of all ages — both kids and adults will have fun trying to become the next railroad baron... All things considered, Ticket to Ride is definitely the top game of 2004 for families and casual gamers alike.

Built in 1981 by railroad baron Henry Villard and luxuriously renovated in 2013, the grand entrance of this hotel is right across Madison Avenue from majestic St. Patrick's Cathedral.

There's also white collar crime (Tom Wilkinson's evil railroad baron stages a hostile takeover of the shareholders), Helena Bonham Carter in requisite bustier accessorized with a gun for a leg, and basically a genocide (actually an accurate portrayal of American's handling of the Indians).

Around the same time, a railroad baron, Latham Cole (WIlkinson, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), is there to drum up support for the massive railroad project that is coming through the small town, assuring the people that it will not draw in the criminal element.

There are not one but three villains — a scheming railroad baron (Tom Wilkinson), a murderous outlaw (William Fichtner) and a corrupt U.S. marshal (Barry Pepper)-- who inflate the script with scenes of knotty, dull exposition.

The land grants to railroad barons after America's Civil War, for example created the largest American fortunes for the ensuing century.

There's an old story about how late - 19th - century railroad barons made the fatal mistake of operating as if they were in the railroad business, as opposed to the transportation business.

In that sense, the train has left the station long ago — and to extend the analogy, the issue isn't that the conductors have changed, but that they got taken over by railroad barons some time ago.

Not exact matches

Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous «robber barons» of 19th - century American capitalism.

- Charles Crocker, Esquire, Mister Charley, biggest of the Big Four barons of the Central Pacific Railroad, resting on the plump brocaded upholstery, massive as a Buddha, snoring in time to the panting, puffing engine hauling them uphill.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Octopus are two novels that were written in 1900 and 1901 respectively about the infamous robber barons and the railroad monopoly, and in this time we saw political and social activism sprout up around these books.

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...