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...Chinese Eastern Railway was built by Russia under a contract concluded in 1896 and the railway zone was administered solely by Russians. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, the U. S. took over temporarily the operation of the railways. During this period the Wilson Administration spent $5,000,000 for the upkeep of the railway, which stun is now owing...
...Oxford's freedom proved a dangerous drug to the impressionable Shelley. He rapidly conceived an intense loathing of the whole social order, the marriage contract in particular. He became an atheist. Most Oxford men go through such phases, but Shelley was supersensitive and these seeming sane ideas crystallized into a philosophy. He became for life, with notable exceptions, vir sui judicii. The writing and distribution to the Dons of the Necessity of Atheism ended his Oxford sojourn with cataclysmic suddenness. Shelley was "sent down...
...that the President's term end at his party's defeat. This leader of the strong Radical Party also recently outlined his political beliefs. "The corner stone of all fiscal reform is the income tax." "The formula for the future is cooperative production." "I cannot admit that the wage-contract represents the final form of labor bargain." The lengths to which the party may go is suggested by the threat of a leading member who said. "If I am returned to the Chamber, comrades, I shall enter it with my pockets full of grenades...
...Senators did not get much satisfaction at the White House, at least they went forth with the appearance of it. They appointed Senator George Wharton Pepper to discover a child fit for adoption and to propose a contract under which it would be entirely severed from its former parent and made the Republican Party's very...
...Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting service, and signed a contract with him to conduct experiments for the Union Switch and Signal Co. From this meeting dates the growth of the present Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. George Westinghouse staked his fortune upon the development of alternating current equipment, and won. Gradually the inventions of the other brilliant inventors were acquired. Stanley...