railroad
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She opted out of that and—with more than 700 locals—joined a separate lawsuit against the railroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The $13 billion figure shows the strength of the company’s railroad, energy and manufacturing, service, and retailing units.
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
SpaceX, he adds, has cut the cost of reaching orbit from around $10,000-$20,000 a kilogram to about $2,000 with its Falcon 9 rocket - "they have built a railroad to space."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Last year, Mexican authorities seized millions of gallons of contraband fuel in scores of railroad cars and trucks near Mexico’s border with Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The car rattles as we pass over the railroad tracks, letting me know we’re in my neighborhood now.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Grant used the destruction of railroads and logistical networks, and superior manpower, to smother the Confederacy during his 1864 Wilderness Campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Debt has been used throughout history to build homes, highways and railroads, construct schools and mobilize for war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the 1880s, quarterly reporting by railroads and other transportation companies were common.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Just as railroads, electric grids, and the Internet reshaped prior economic eras, we believe SpaceX is building the foundational platform for the next generation of industrial capacity,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Those fool demons are using too much dynamite. They must have some amateurs on. Why, on the railroads we’d only have used half that charge to blast our way into a mountain.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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I looked into those charges and concluded that they are unsupported, that Pangram isn’t reliable enough to serve as the basis for such accusations, and that there is a strong possibility Mia Ballard was railroaded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Like other actors including Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, Julia Ormond, briefly a major star in the 1990s, has alleged in a lawsuit that Weinstein railroaded her career.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Before flying home, he requested to meet the women and apologise, which one complainant said she felt "railroaded" into attending.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024
But a group of faculty members rallied to support her, arguing that she was being railroaded for a moment of poorly worded remarks about antisemitism.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
If I had been railroaded, the authorities would have known how I’d gotten it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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But wage-earners—in textile manufacturing and railroading, to pick two examples—gained by the steady appreciation in the purchasing power of their hard-earned money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Unlike Derry’s pubs, it welcomed everybody and also secretly provided a safe refuge for Hank as he hid from the cops intent on railroading him.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
“When the Mexican Revolution was going on, you had a lot of Mexican immigrants coming into these railroading hubs and centers like the Inland Empire, like San Bernardino,” Ocegueda said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
He also criticized the company’s practice of precision scheduled railroading, which involves cutting back on rail yard workers, inspectors and equipment to adhere to stricter train schedules to maximize profits.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
They launched into a long discussion of their memories, both of railroading and of the Sierras.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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