railroad
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Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
Goldman Sachs helped sell the IPO with a new concept, the price-to-earnings ratio, a measure for companies that lacked the hard assets of a railroad or steel maker.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
Cornelius Vanderbilt was arguably the first railroad tycoon to dominate the stock exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boarding house into a hotel and renamed it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
“Only so much we can do, though. The railroad doesn’t much care what we have to say, and they own the land.”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Vocabulary lists containing railroad
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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