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Invisible Giants [[electronic resource] ] : The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers / / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr



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Autore: Harwood Herbert H., Jr. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Invisible Giants [[electronic resource] ] : The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers / / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington and Indianapolis, : Indiana University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
Disciplina: 385.0922771
385/.092/2771 B
Soggetto topico: Railroads - Ohio - History
Real estate development - Ohio - Cleveland - History
Businessmen - Ohio
Soggetto geografico: Cleveland (Ohio) History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Map
16 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Invisible 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 elu
Titolo autorizzato: Invisible Giants  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07242-0
9786612072420
0-253-11060-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450330003321
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