03319oam 22006014a 450 991078335730332120230617020433.01-282-07242-097866120724200-253-11060-2(CKB)1000000000030347(EBL)237021(OCoLC)475945571(SSID)ssj0000183458(PQKBManifestationID)11154307(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183458(PQKBWorkID)10195616(PQKB)10882589(OCoLC)559841355(MiAaPQ)EBC237021(MdBmJHUP)muse16522(EXLCZ)99100000000003034720020320d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInvisible Giants[electronic resource] The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers /Herbert H. Harwood, JrBloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Pressc20031 online resource (361 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34163-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.Introduction; 1 Oasis in a Gritty City; 2 The Ideal Suburb; 3 Mr. Smith Sells a Farm; 4 Mr. Smith Sells a Railroad; 5 Shaping Solid Forms; 6 A Difficult Birth at the Public Square; 7 The Beginnings of an Empire; 8 To the South, East, and North; 9 Taking Stock: 1924; 10 Some Shadows Fleet By; 11 Building, Rebuilding, and Juggling; 12 Consolidation Anarchy I: The Maverick and the General; 13 Consolidation Anarchy II: The Street Fighter; 14 The Summit I: An Appalachian Peak in the Rockies; 15 The Summit II: Filling Out the Railroad Map16 The Summit III: Consummation in Cleveland-and a Jolt17 Completions and Complications; 18 Taking Stock: 1930; 19 Sudden Darkness; 20 The Rails Roll Downgrade; 21 A New World; 22 The Cruelest Year; 23 The Last Train; 24 Epilogue I: New Empires from Old; 25 Epilogue II: The Ghosts; Notes; Sources and Acknowledgments; IndexInvisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system -- a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system -- a goal that still eluRailroadsOhioHistoryReal estate developmentOhioClevelandHistoryBusinessmenOhioBiographyCleveland (Ohio)HistoryRailroadsHistory.Real estate developmentHistory.Businessmen385.0922771385/.092/2771 BHarwood Herbert H.Jr.858167MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910783357303321Invisible Giants3699381UNINA