113 ordspråk av John Moody
John Moody
 Canals might indeed linger for a time as feeders... but every one now realized that the railroad was to be the great agency which would give plausibility to the industrial organization of the United States and develop its great territory. |
| Carrying out this policy of promoting harmony among competing lines, the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad early in 1900 acquired a working control of the Reading Company, which in turn controlled the New Jersey Central and dominated the anthracite coal traffic. |
| Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. |
| Even the New York Central system in 1866 was practically a single-track road; and the Commodore could not claim to any particular superiority over his neighbors and rivals in this particular. |
| Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. |
| Federal railroad regulation... had steadily increased through the years; the Sherman Anti-trust Act, passed in 1890, had been interpreted broadly as affecting the railroads of the country as well as the industrial and other combinations. |
| For many years following 1851, Drew, who owned or controlled nearly one-half the stock of the Erie, appeared to think that his office of treasurer carried with it the right to manipulate the stock of the road at any time it might help his pocketbook to do so. |
| For under the Commodore's magic touch the Harlem Railroad for the first time in its long history began to pay dividends at a high rate, and in four years the earnings of the Hudson River property had nearly doubled. |
| Grades have been eliminated everywhere and the whole route has been modernized and strengthened by the laying of one hundred to one hundred and fifty pound rails. |
| Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. |
| Having obtained control of the New York Central, the Hudson River, and the Harlem railroads, Commodore Vanderbilt now decided in the summer of 1867 to go after the Erie, of which Drew was nominally in possession, although no one knew when he owned a majority of the stock or when he was temporarily short of it. |
| He means so much to so many runners. He comes to every banquet and has received a standing ovation. I'm not sure he realizes what he has meant to the lives of athletes. |
| Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. |
| I have trained really hard. I was as nervous as hell serving at 20-19 but it worked out. |
| I really don't believe it's time for panic, ... I think cool heads need to prevail. |
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