It was the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed.
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It takes more than training to complete a transcontinental run.
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The transcontinental railroad connected America's coasts and forever transformed our economy.
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In 1869, Alameda served as the terminus for the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The Pacific Railway Act approved federal support for a transcontinental railroad.
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Transcontinental will buy the privately held Coveris with cash and debt.
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Symbol of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad GOLDEN SPIKE 57A.
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Beginning this spring, the meals will be offered on 12 transcontinental flights.
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It bought up incompatible competitors and created the first transcontinental communications network.
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The second biggest decliner was Transcontinental Inc, which was down 3.3 percent.
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That's the cheapest transcontinental flight you can book using points and miles.
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The spaces between my long and lonely transcontinental treks felt equally uncertain.
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Big, long-term, transcontinental shifts are pushing Russia and Europe back together.
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Hertzberg and her co-researchers boarded 103 transcontinental flights to find out.
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Plus, wireless telegraphy made maritime and transcontinental communication a lot more simple.
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It's United's first scheduled service for these transcontinental routes with premium economy tickets.
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The contribution of the Chinese to the Transcontinental was kept from national memory.
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JetBlue is rapidly expanding its premium "Mint" class service to more transcontinental routes.
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In May of 1869, right here in Promontory, the railroad system became transcontinental.
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The flag's return required a transcontinental trip: It was recovered in Washington State.
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America marks 150 years since the Transcontinental Railroad connected sea to shining sea.
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Then, Abraham Lincoln linked the east coast to California with the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The end of the line because the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway ended here.
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On its premium transcontinental routes, United gives out abridged business class amenity kits.
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President Abraham Lincoln on this day in 2000 received the first transcontinental telegram.
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Founding the National Science Foundation, setting up the transcontinental railroad, the land grant colleges.
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"There's nothing evil at all in having a transcontinental railroad," Rose said on Thursday.
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The development of transcontinental freight corridors would give economic substance to these diplomatic relationships.
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Transcontinental also owns of community newspapers in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Atlantic provinces.
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Ewin said the proposed transcontinental pipe would open Australia's domestic market for northern producers.
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Pete Kostelnick is dwarfed by the Nevada wilderness during his record-setting transcontinental run.
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At the end of the 19th century, these two countries became great transcontinental powers.
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Why did the fox take such an extreme, transcontinental journey in the first place?
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Think big with the Erie Canal, Transcontinental Railroad, Hoover Dam, and Interstate Highway System.
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Such projects—which are transnational as well as transcontinental—carry risks beyond the merely technological.
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Europe suffers from the same lack of competition and high fares as transcontinental routes have.
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China's large and rapidly growing transcontinental infrastructure connectivity projects are enhancing Asia's prodigious growth potential.
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Chinese laborers in California were manning the gold rush and building the first transcontinental railroad.
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The big three legacy airlines have also looked for ways to improve their transcontinental service.
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In the month preceding the start of his transcontinental run, Kostelnick logged over 235 miles.
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Together they built the transcontinental railroad and the Interstate Highway System to connect our country.
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Zika travelled to Brazil, then, as viruses prefer to travel these days—on transcontinental airplanes.
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Abraham Lincoln signed legislation providing the land grants and financing that created the transcontinental railroad.
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Transcontinental flights are frequently served by tailwinds that reduce their flight times in the eastbound direction.
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But the ultra-high voltages required for transcontinental transmission are still best achieved with direct current.
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The emotional and financial strain of a transcontinental love story will only make you more worldly.
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She'll suffer under their gazes, though, until she (finally) springs for a transcontinental escape to Morocco.
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AMC's massive, five-season undertaking is an examination of the bodies that built the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Self-described as "transcontinental freshness," the collection featured a wide range of cuts, colors, and textures.
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But now he has embarked on a transcontinental commute with a restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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A rough analogy is that we are trying to build the equivalent of the transcontinental railway.
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Almost a century earlier, Congress and Abraham Lincoln had supported the building of the transcontinental railroad.
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It's been 150 years since two railroads were joined together to form the first Transcontinental Railroad.
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The ticket cost me $112 on Alaska Airlines, which now serves numerous transcontinental routes from New York.
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The golden spike is ceremonially driven in, completing the first transcontinental railroad, at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869.
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The airline has expanded its Mint premium cabin, which offers lie-flat beds, to more transcontinental routes.
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The town sputtered to life in the late 1800s around coalmines that fed the new transcontinental railroad.
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For decades astronomers had known that a total, transcontinental solar eclipse would occur on Monday, Aug. 21.
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Some airlines, including Delta and American, have reintroduced free food service in economy, largely on transcontinental flights.
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Block it all out with this pillow and help make that transcontinental flight a bit more restful.
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The surcharge for Main Cabin Extra seats varies, but it can top $100 each way on transcontinental flights.
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By the 290s, there were seven transcontinental legacy carriers: US Air, Continental, TWA, Northwest, American, United, and Delta.
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By the 19803s, there were seven transcontinental legacy carriers: US Air, Continental, TWA, Northwest, American, United, and Delta.
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It would improve that carrier's access to the West Coast and remove competition on some transcontinental business routes.
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Consequently, the origination of the virus in China and its transcontinental spread across the globe are highly relevant.
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From 1983 to 1986, he undertook a transcontinental project to map the corrosive anticipation of impending nuclear catastrophe.
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Transcontinental flights over the United States may in the future have to make midroute stops more frequently, too.
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There, more than a year ago, he immersed himself in reading history, collecting images and plotting transcontinental travels.
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ON LOCATION The East Hampton, N.Y., vacation home was designed to accommodate an extended — and expanding — transcontinental family.
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The result could be the end of the nationwide service that once formed the backbone of America's transcontinental expansion.
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Or if you believe Papadopoulos, he is part of the vast transcontinental left-wing conspiracy to bring him down.
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On May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad linked America from east to west for the first time in history.
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In a 19th century case arising from the building of the transcontinental railroad, the Supreme Court in Wardell v.
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The railroad bill established a transcontinental telegraph line and link to established eastern railroads originating at the Missouri River.
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American Airlines completely stopped serving meals for economy passengers on domestic flights, with the exception of nonstop transcontinental routes.
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Raise the child's sights from his model trains to the spectacular construction of the Transcontinental Railway, completed in 21962.
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On transcontinental flights, Flagship first and business classes get kits designed by LA-based shoe company Athletic Propulsion Labs.
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We're used to the seamless scene transition, the effortless transcontinental check-ins where we actually remember who everyone is.
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This was amid increasing tensions, particularly between the two great transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific and the Northern Pacific.
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Roy's team also set a record for transcontinental autonomous driving, using Tesla's Autopilot for over 97 percent of their journey.
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Valuable though they are, transcontinental links like those in China, Brazil and India are not the only use for UHVDC.
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After Korea, Glenn became a test pilot, setting a transcontinental speed record from Los Angeles to New York in 1957.
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They probably want to Scrooge McDuck for a while and not manage a transcontinental production involving every living British actor.
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Now defunct, the railway was the northernmost transcontinental route in the country, carrying the original Empire Builder train in 1929.
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In 2013, his monthlong roving exhibition, "Station to Station," moved from New York to San Francisco on a transcontinental train.
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In February 2018, "Now on My Way" dedicated an episode to the past and future idea of a transcontinental train.
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Frontier Airlines is continuing its expansion in Newark, New Jersey with new transcontinental service to Ontario, California starting June 4.
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After Korea, Glenn became a test pilot for naval and Marine aircraft and, in 1957, set the transcontinental air speed record.
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Transcontinental immigration tailed off by the mid-21969th century, to be replaced in a few cases by movements within the region.
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This structure is best thought of as a transcontinental relay race with hidden hurdles, says Willy Shih of Harvard Business School.
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Noisey had a chat with Takiaya and Sylvie ahead of the release of their second album BASIC and their transcontinental tour.
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The Union Pacific Railroad restored the historic train engine to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The agency will also release stamps including designs honoring the transcontinental railroad, tennis champion Maureen Connolly Brinker and artist Ellsworth Kelly.
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JetBlue features preferred flat fares for Mint (business class) transcontinental flights, plus up to 5% off coach and business class tickets.
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In 1957, while serving as a Marine Corps pilot, he broke the transcontinental speed record in a mission called Project Bullet.
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The construction of the transcontinental railroad after the Civil War and of major airports after World War II were important contributors.
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It changed the country and the electoral map forever, and the Transcontinental Railroad finally connected the nation from coast to coast.
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Five hundred to 1,000 years ago, before large-scale transcontinental migration, people who lived in the same region had similar genetics.
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Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and JetBlue offer lie-flat seats on transcontinental routes, the latter two on narrowbody Airbus jets.
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Global Citizen and Teneo are reviving the idea of a transcontinental event at a time of historic global unrest and division.
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Zoey uses Snapchat, the app that kept her relationship going when it was transcontinental, to remind Luca how well they can work.
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The contract signed with CMA CGM, the first shipping company to equip its transcontinental container ships with LNG engines, is another example.
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Alaska has steadily moved to expand its network beyond the West Coast, pushing into transcontinental flights as well as those to Hawaii.
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Her designs have been quite the hit with the international set, an aesthetic that may have been informed by her transcontinental upbringing.
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It was a seminal moment in American history: the inauguration of the first Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah.
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And he was sent for an ultrasound of his leg: He'd been on long transcontinental flights, which can cause clots to form.
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Ghost Spirit and Frail Hands put together a transcontinental split LP that sees the two hardcore bands trying to outdo each other.
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Cross the American West on Amtrak and it's hard not to think of the transcontinental railroad, binding the coasts together in 1869.
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Lady Gaga sent Kelly Osbourne a cake to end their transcontinental feud, but the "Born This Way" singer's gesture was poorly received.
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We displaced the Mexicans, broke the bodies of countless immigrant workers to build the Erie Canal, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the Hoover Dam.
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" The 'Til Death actress continued: "During our transcontinental chat before Carrie's fateful flight from London to L.A., we promised we'd spend Christmas together.
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While it would take a significantly more powerful battery to compete with a transcontinental airliner, the shorter routes are still a promising target.
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There were debates about tariffs and funding the transcontinental railroad during the 1860 election, but that's not what anyone remembers about that race.
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But today I cherish Vin Scully as the enduring embodiment of the transcontinental bond linking the Brooklyn days to the Los Angeles years.
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At the same time, those transcontinental flights get chilly, so why not stay warm and invent a new layering trend in the process?
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O.K., maybe that's a bit extreme, and creepy, but she's definitely someone I would love to sit next to on a transcontinental flight.
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Spirit Airlines is launching new transcontinental service between its Fort Lauderdale base and Oakland, California, reopening a route previously served by JetBlue Airways.
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The route will connect Portland with West Coast cities through Minneapolis as the airline focuses on one-stop transcontinental flights during the summer.
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"Art is a transcontinental commodity," said William Weston, a specialist dealer in modern prints, who was at Phillips on the evening of Jan.
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Louise, the Oregon-reared, Düsseldorf-schooled artist at the nexus of this transcontinental saga, traffics in installations amid highway overpasses and nuclear plants.
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Louise, the Oregon-reared, Düsseldorf-schooled artist at the nexus of this transcontinental saga, traffics in installations amid highway overpasses and nuclear plants.
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Eventually, humans were able to make the trek, but scientists aren't entirely sure which route they took, or the timing of the transcontinental leap.
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The 2000 year-old car lover is known as the current record holder of the New York to Los Angeles "Cannonball Run" transcontinental record.
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In the absence of a global African project, such programs would only get mixed up in transcontinental corruption and prolong Africans' indebtedness and infantilization.
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Here are United's amenity kits: Premium economy is on the left, transcontinental business class is on the right, and Polaris business class is center.
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That's because 26 of the 46 charging stations currently being built along the transcontinental Trans-Canada Highway are V3 chargers, Tesla tells The Verge.
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Jobs created by logging and mining, combined with the opening of a transcontinental railway in the 19th century, drew settlers from Quebec to Sudbury.
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She has resumed drinking wine, eating chocolate, running and lifting weights, napping, casually booking cross-country & transcontinental flights, and working long, strenuous attorney hours again.
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Also fresh off a transcontinental voyage, the Land Rover Range Rover Velar bowed for the first time in America at the New York Auto Show.
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The deal, announced on Monday, would also prove especially helpful in giving the older airline valuable space at major California airports and lucrative transcontinental routes.
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In 21980, Mr. Pryor was third-billed behind Mr. Wilder and Jill Clayburgh in "Silver Streak," a comic thriller about murder on a transcontinental train.
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From the transcontinental railroad to the Hoover Dam, our nation has proven time and again, there are things Americans can build even in difficult times.
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Union Pacific was created in 1862, when Abraham Lincoln ordered the company to open the American West by helping to build the first transcontinental railroad.
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And he was a celebrity already, having just made America's first transcontinental supersonic flight, in a record three hours 290 minutes, testing a new fighter aircraft.
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Mr Vantuono believes that his ultimate goal is to arrange one of the mergers that eluded him in the past and to create a transcontinental railway.
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Beginning March 1, Delta's transcontinental passengers flying between New York City's JFK airport and LAX and SFO will be the first to be given free meals.
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The top spot once again went to Abraham Lincoln — the quintessential self-made man who saved the Union, emancipated the slaves, and launched the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The A321, with a similar capacity and range to the 757, currently operates American's flagship transcontinental services between New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Competing in her first ultra-endurance event, Kolbinger claimed victory in the seventh edition of Europe's Transcontinental Race after dominating the competition from start to finish.
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Frontier Airlines is launching new transcontinental service between Miami and Ontario, California on April 23 as the airline grows its presence at the Southern California airport.
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For those of us stuck in economy, however, domestic meals probably aren't coming back en masse, although Delta has introduced meals for its nonstop transcontinental routes.
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Those tributes marked portions of the Jefferson Davis Highway, a transcontinental road system named for the former rebel chieftain, stretching from Virginia to the Pacific coast.
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Forward-cabin fliers will also have the option of changing into newly designed cotton pajamas for the duration of international and transcontinental flights that they can keep.
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Torstar said it reached a deal to outsource printing to Transcontinental Printing and had begun talks with unions representing the affected employees to develop a transition plan.
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He flew a Vought F-773 Crusader from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes -- the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed.
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American Airlines operates a three-class cabin — first, business and coach — on its transcontinental service between New York and San Francisco and New York to Los Angeles.
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American and United each have used 787s on other routes around the country, but the service will be the first scheduled nonstop transcontinental service using the planes.
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Alaska operates multiple transcontinental services per day to the West Coast from New York, a market in which it had little presence only a few years ago.
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S&P Capital IQ analyst Jim Corridore said in a research note that the deal would increase Alaska Air's access to transcontinental markets on the East Coast.
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A large chunk of Sri Lanka's foreign debt is from China, which sees Sri Lanka as a key link in its transcontinental Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.
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During an S.S.W., the air temperature rapidly rises by at least 45 degrees Fahrenheit at altitudes above where transcontinental aircraft fly, at roughly 30,000 to 150,000 feet.
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CN has said the shutdown of its eastern network will halt all transcontinental freight trains across its network and may lead to temporary layoffs of operational staff.
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I find this period interesting as the American western frontier finally reaches from sea to shining sea and the transcontinental railroad connected the country unlike ever before.
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The new East/West, West/East "Silk Route" is as important to the world as was the completed Transcontinental Railroad in the United States 150 years ago.
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The result snapped a two-game losing streak for the Lightning, who opened a transcontinental road trip Tuesday by falling to the New York Rangers 25-23.
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A United spokeswoman told me the airline had begun serving complimentary meals and drinks on many transcontinental flights beginning July 1, but only for Economy Plus passengers.
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In North America, domestic routes also appeared frequently, with transcontinental routes in the US and Canada earning the most revenue for some of the continent's largest airlines.
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With Congress out of town until next year and Trump at his Florida resort, the battle over impeachment degenerated into a series of transcontinental tweets and soundbites.
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Time's Lev Grossman blames our increasingly "multicultural, transcontinental, hyphenated identities and our globalized, displaced, deracinated lives" for why any consensus about a single voice now seems impossible.
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Announces its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2017 * Q3 adjusted earnings per share C$0.65 * Transcontinental Inc - qtrly revenues went from $467.8 million in q3 of 2016 to $477.7 million in q3 of 2017 * Q3 earnings per share C$0.64 * Transcontinental Inc - in printing division, expect revenues from all retailer-related services to remain relatively stable in q4 of 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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The development of a transcontinental rail service linking China, Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe aligns with the strategic vision outlined by China's President Xi Jinping.
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Prior to the merger, Virgin America competed with established airlines on this transcontinental route for over a decade, by advertising as the cool, alternative airline of Silicon Valley.
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A transcontinental flight cost more than $2172,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars in the mid-1970s, while travelers could find tickets for around $300 for the same route today.
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His new photography book, "African Catwalk," is a visual survey of Africa's emerging fashion industry, giving viewers an insider's perspective on a transcontinental spectacle that often goes unseen.
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Sharman is the brain behind One Star House Party, a two-year traveling, transcontinental pop-up kitchen, and has apparently begun taking the term haute cuisine very literally.
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"He sort of happens to be the right man at the right time to go for the transcontinental record," said Chris Kostman, director of the Badwater 215 ultramarathon.
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It's been 150 years since the forming of the first Transcontinental Railroad, a seminal moment in American history that 15,000 Chinese railroad workers were largely written out of.
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While this type of arctic fox has long been known for its endurance in the barren polar climate, such a fast transcontinental journey has never been documented before.
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The deals are designed to facilitate power trade across Asia by around 2030 and pave the way for transcontinental or "global" grid interconnections by 13, including to Europe.
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And she said the plane was probably one of the airline's 11 new 777-300ERs, which are being broken in on transcontinental routes before moving to international ones.
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In the nineteenth century, the Homestead Act handed out free land to settlers, and the transcontinental railroad was built thanks to cheap land grants and huge government outlays.
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A coordinated, comprehensive transcontinental military, political, social, economic and intelligence operation is required to cut the arms from this vampire squid before it sucks more lifeblood from us.
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The land mass forms a backdrop to Kozloff's elementary-school depictions of Asia, portrait of an Eskimo girl and a crayon drawing of the construction of the transcontinental railway.
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Thus, a question: What would it take to make the US a transcontinental Whoville, where the only thing louder than the roar of efficient travel is the constant caroling?
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He had been busy, having just a few days earlier traveled to Salt Lake City, where he and other Chinese Americans had commemorated the building of the transcontinental railroad.
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A crowd of several thousand gathered to watch a demonstration of restored steam engines during the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the American Transcontinental Railroad.
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This week's two trades - a US$103bn issue from Lloyds and a US$1bn deal from Transcontinental Pipelines - both saw solid demand, but both paid high new issue concessions.
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We can see this at a celebrity scale when pundits snark about actor Leonardo DiCaprio's transcontinental flights as a climate activist or former Vice President Al Gore's electricity bills.
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CP had touted cost savings of more than $1.8 billion annually from the deal, saying it would create a transcontinental railroad that would provide more efficient, cheaper rail service.
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What they did: The team — which included researchers from Emory, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Boeing (the company also helped fund the research) — went on 10 transcontinental U.S. flights.
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One hopeful lesson of the United States in general — and the Transcontinental Railroad in particular — is that the renewable resource of (paid) immigrant labor has nearly nothing but merit.
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"What was a regional carrier is now going to be much more of a transcontinental carrier, so I see a lot of growth ahead for Alaska Airlines," Lebenthal said.
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Before the 1869 completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, it was in some ways easier for people on the East Coast to travel to Europe than the Western United States.
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He continued to work as a test pilot until 22012, being awarded his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross for completing the first supersonic transcontinental flight (code-named Project Bullet) in 2100.
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Time and time again, motherhood is metonymic for one's place of origin, whether your mother's womb, your mother country, or a continental motherland that birthed Blackness and a transcontinental diaspora.
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The journey started in December when Alaska Airlines had a "buy one, get one" promotion for all of its flights, lowering transcontinental fares to as low as double-digit numbers.
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Tougher times also raise the spectre of rail mergers, a phenomenon that has vexed America ever since the first transcontinental line was hammered together in the Utah desert in 21.8.
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That dynamic will be on display during Trump's second visit to Europe this week, just weeks after his first transcontinental trip opened new gaps between Washington and some longtime allies.
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Transcontinental railroads could also boost China's economic integration with Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, offering a faster option than sea freight but a cheaper one than air cargo.
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Will Michelangelo's provincial insecurity spoil this chance to vanquish his competitors, taste the liberating pleasures of transcontinental homoerotics, and bind two worlds with an unprecedented feat of artistry and engineering?
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Torstar has reached a deal to outsource printing of the Toronto Star to Transcontinental Printing, making it the latest Canadian newspaper whose printing is to be outsourced amid slowing readership.
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I cringed to learn that John, the writer character, is so stalled on his novel about the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad that his publisher has canceled his contract.
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Before Times Square became New York City's seedy underbelly, and many more years before its Disneyfication, it was one of two termini of the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental highway.
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Like the watches worn by transcontinental steamship passengers in the 1930s, the pared-back timepiece has a retro sector dial — a brushed-metal ring that contrasts with an opaline center.
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The airline, once a confined to only serving Portland and Seattle from the East Coast, is now a major player on transcontinental routes, some of the longest in the nation.
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"The Transcontinental Railroad connected New York to Sacramento at the new, exhilarating speed of 35 miles per hour," Stone reports, adding that its passengers were fed on grouse and champagne.
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Eurovision, the outrageously camp transcontinental song and dance competition that gave breaks to Abba and Celine Dion, is viewed by hundreds of millions of people around the world each year.
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Transcontinental services also became more common beyond New York with JetBlue connecting East Coast and West Coast cities such as Washington, DC, and Boston with Long Beach and Oakland in California.
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Connie Young Yu, descendant of 2150th-century railroad workers, shows photographs of her parents from the centennial anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad before making the opening remarks at the 21867th anniversary.
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Maxar Technologies Ltd: CIBC cuts target price to C$10003 from C$82.50 Transcontinental Inc: Canaccord Genuity cuts price target to C$28 from C$29 COMMODITIES AT 7:15 a.m.
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"Singaporeans are crazy about the fish," said Emily Voigt, the author of "The Dragon Behind the Glass," a rollicking account of her transcontinental journey into the murky world of the arowana.
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Even if you don't know much about the history of the Transcontinental Railroad, how can you imagine this railroad might have impacted the United States and the world at the time?
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Beneath his expedient rhetoric, Douglas's main goal may have been to line the pockets of his speculator friends, who stood to reap immense profits from the development of a transcontinental railroad.
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It was an epic train system, the Transcontinental Railroad, a marvel of engineering and determination, that tied the United States together and let Americans spread west with greater ease and efficiency.
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The same country that dreamed up the transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway system and the smartphone is more than capable of generating the next Big Idea that could revolutionize infrastructure.
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Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, the first Chinese American woman of Cabinet rank, addresses 20,000 people gathered for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the American transcontinental railroad.
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Don't expect a transcontinental flight, though — the first few flights for a new aircraft of this complexity are straightforward, local, and carefully planned, designed to make sure everything is operating as expected.
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When maxed out, the 6% back equates to $53 cash back, which is enough for most people to book at least a couple of hotel nights or a round-trip transcontinental flight.
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Plus, the jumpsuit's construction and bedazzling was a transcontinental affair that went down in eight different countries (Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the U.K., and the U.S.), according to Swarovski reps.
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On this day in 1930, Laura Ingalls broke the record for the fastest transcontinental flight by a woman, making it to Los Angeles from New York in 30 hours and 27 minutes.
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Macdonald also cleared the path for a transcontinental railway in the 1880s in some areas by withholding food relief for indigenous people during a famine until they moved to government-established reserves.
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"Load up on a heavy moisturizer or even a night cream when you're doing a transcontinental flight," says Marsha McCray, who's been a flight attendant for a major airline for over 20 years.
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Exactly 150 years ago, the first American transcontinental railroad was completed, here on the high plains of what was then not yet a state, at a lonesome and desolate spot called Promontory Summit.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said a transcontinental railway proposed by China to slash the costs of shipping Brazilian goods to Asia could be too expensive and environmentally harmful to build.
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Though he had returned from his transcontinental odyssey a couple of years earlier and moved in with his mother in San Diego, I rarely saw him; when I visited, we exchanged few words.
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Perhaps because The Bad Seeds, even as membership shifts, consists of a transcontinental array of some of the world's better practitioners of dark and avant rock, Cave's starkest love songs are shockingly direct.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: The first Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869, joined two railroads to connect the east and west coasts of the United States for the first time.
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There are no people to be seen anywhere except at the bottom of Bierstadt's large canvas, where there are depictions of some visitors who came west after the completion of the transcontinental railway.
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Zuckerberg's team has vehemently denied that this transcontinental road show hints at a future presidential run, despite sharing all the hallmarks and even some of the operatives of a political candidate's early ground game.
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Soon after its East Coast launch, a secondary base was opened in Long Beach, California with a mix of transcontinental routes and short-haul routes to nearby destinations such as Oakland and Las Vegas.
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The trans-Atlantic market, "especially in the premium category, suffers from the same lack of competition and high fares that [transcontinental] routes in the U.S. saw before JetBlue introduced Mint," JetBlue's statement said Tuesday.
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The story begins soon after a few AT&T executives decided to tackle the seemingly impossible task of creating a transcontinental phone line that could connect a call between New York and San Francisco.
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That played out parent who doesn't seem up to coping with that energetic toddler may be on leg three out of five of a tragic transcontinental journey to attend a family member's death bed.
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Transcontinental is Canada's largest printer and prints newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette and the Vancouver Sun as well as the San Francisco Chronicle in the United States under contract.
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"I still get the short-flight upgrades, but I rarely get upgraded on transcontinental flights anymore," said Daniel J. Korn of New York, a marketing professional for Havas Worldwide who travels frequently for business.
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Unlike Kerber, Pliskova had decided to skip the Olympics, and she believed she had gained an advantage from not having to endure the transcontinental travel that most other players at this tournament had experienced.
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The flight to Iceland is about five hours and while I had some trouble crossing my legs, I didn't notice much of a difference between these seats and flying transcontinental on a U.S. carrier.
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In 2014, it launched Mint, a premium cabin with lie-flat seats, on its transcontinental routes, a play for lucrative business travelers in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Seattle.
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The anniversary was an occasion to commemorate "the contribution and sacrifices of the railroad workers," including the estimated 12,000-15,000 Chinese laborers "who risked everything to make the Transcontinental Railroad a reality," Chao said.
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In "Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine," Andrew F. Smith explains that Chinese restaurants proliferated during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, catering to Chinese miners and railroad workers.
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This two-night special follows immigrant populations to North America, with stops at the Dutch fur trade, the California gold rush, the Great Migration of African-Americans and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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They began seeing each other regularly, and were soon making plans for a transcontinental future, as he had an engagement in Ireland for his work that meant he would be gone for a time.
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Stanford later changed his mind, and wrote to U.S. President Andrew Johnson that without the Chinese, the Transcontinental Railroad would not have been possible, and that they were "quiet, peaceable, patient, industrious and economical" people.
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Fifty-one hours and 2877 minutes later, they arrived at a garage on E. 255st Street in New York City, claiming to set a new record for the fastest transcontinental drive in an electric vehicle.
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OSLO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Budget airline Norwegian Air will discontinue a number of routes in Europe, the United States, as well as some transcontinental flights, to improve its financial performance, the company said on Wednesday.
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It will be capable of taking on the same duties that those rockets perform, while adding new capabilities that range from planting a colony on Mars to making 30-minute transcontinental travel possible on Earth.
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I grew up in a conservative household in an even more conservative neighborhood, and I doubt I'd had any exposure, up till that point, to Ferlinghetti and his transcontinental, transcendental comrades known as the Beats.
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Chinese laborers, imported to build the western side of the transcontinental railroad, are seen as a threat when the railroad is finished and the post-Civil War depression of the 1870s drives up white unemployment.
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Soon after its inception in 1930 as Transcontinental & Western Air, eccentric aviation entrepreneur Howard Hughes took the helm, acquiring new aircraft such as the Lockheed Constellation that would go up against Pan American World Airways.
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He wrote novels, including "World Without End, Amen" (22011), a transcontinental love story set against the Troubles in Belfast, and "Table Money" (267), about a Queens housewife freeing herself from her husband, an alcoholic sandhog.
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White, who teaches at Stanford, is one of the nation's most gifted historians, the author of several important studies of the American West, including a scathing exposé of the giant post-Civil War transcontinental railroads.
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"These are present-day individuals, but we're trying to capture the world as it was before the massive transcontinental migration that's happened over the last 83 years," Kasia Bryc, a population geneticist for the company, explained.
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Then, in 1853, in a maneuver to insure the construction of the Pacific Railroad, the southern portion of a transcontinental railroad, the U.S. negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, and Mexico lost southern Arizona and southern New Mexico.
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Delta began testing serving meals on transcontinental late last year, and, to no surprise, found that customer satisfaction increased significantly when they were given sandwiches for which they'd otherwise have to fork over around ten bucks.
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Approximately 40 percent of passengers never leave their seats during transcontinental flights (which tend to be on the short side), another 40 percent get up at least once, and 20 percent get up two or more times.
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Earlier this month, he and a friend set the record for fastest transcontinental drive in an electric car: a "cannonball run" from California to New York in a Tesla Model S in 23 hours and 47 minutes.
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In the 19th century, the American Industrial Revolution was responsible for momentous technological strides: The country's first cotton mill, the invention of the telegraph and sewing machine, and the completion of the United States' first transcontinental railroad.
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On July 16th, 1957, he broke the transcontinental speed record, taking off from Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in California, and touching down 3 hours and 23 minutes later at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York.
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Let's flash back to the Machine Age, the period in American history that gave us the assembly line, the first nonstop transcontinental flight, regular radio broadcasts, and the first robot capable of performing more than 20 movements.
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China has the financial resources and the economic incentive to build a major transcontinental railroad service within the next 5-10 years, and the project has strong political backing from top leaders for economic and strategic reasons.
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Thunder Bay, Ontario: Bisected by both transcontinental train lines and the Trans-Canada Highway, and also the last port on the Great Lakes, Thunder Bay attracted immigrants from around the world who brought their cooking with them.
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If realized as Musk has envisioned, Starship would stand 39 stories tall, ferry perhaps 1 million people to Mars, reduce the cost of access to space by approximately 99%, and disrupt the transcontinental and international airline industry.
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"The July 2nd eclipse is the first total solar eclipse since the transcontinental total solar eclipse in summer of 2017," said Paige Godfrey in a statement, astrophysicist at the Slooh Community Observatory which has a location in Chile.
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Mint was the first time the airline departed from an all-economy product and though it was only intended to be implemented on transcontinental routes at first and some Caribbean routes, Mint was quickly expanded across the country.
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Stymied by a lack of records from that era, many Chinese-Americans have only managed to trace their family's roots to the Transcontinental Railroad in recent years, with the help of research organized by Stanford University in California.
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Dating back to the advent of the transcontinental railroad and moving forward through the Rural Electrification Act, the Interstate Highway System to the deployment of the ARPANET, these milestones have created competitive advantages that continue to this day.
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Train had founded the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier to finance the transcontinental railroad, and he had taken the trip that caught Verne's attention, returning home in 80 days, not counting time in a French prison.
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Most of the transcontinental smoke plume, illustrated on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map he posted on Twitter, was "a couple of miles up" in the atmosphere, high enough to be carried east by the jet stream.
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More important, China, whose share of world trade in the mid-1970s was less than 0.5 percent, is today the world's leading exporter — the hub of new and increasingly dense transcontinental trading networks that bypass the United States.
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With her auction record of $4.6 million and transcontinental biography — born in Ethiopia and raised in Michigan — she is one of the top-selling living female artists and bona fide stars in the art world that prizes multiculturalism.
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In a now popular genre established by Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects," he focuses on 76 innovations or creations, ranging from the Erie Canal to jazz, from the transcontinental railroad to the microprocessor.
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The speech, which you can read here sometime if you're on a transcontinental flight or camped outside the Apple store for a new iPhone, came in at a whopping 8,445 words and took him almost two hours to complete.
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In London, Acoda shared the same offices in Westminster that housed Strategy Network International (SNI), a public relations firm set up by Cleary, and paid through his company, Transcontinental Consultancy, which was funded by the apartheid South African government.
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He managed to witness a good part of the key events of the 1861th century in the United States, from the gold rush to the building of the transcontinental railroad to the near extermination of the Native American tribes.
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Rounded out by his unbelievable conditioning, Yehi seamlessly combines the UK and Japanese styles in a way that reflects the transcontinental tastes of many wrestlers who have grown up in the information age with access to global wrestling trends.
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At the front of that charge is J Hus, who just released his impressive debut album, "Common Sense," which uses grime as a steppingstone for a sound that is truly transcontinental, encompassing American hip-hop and West African pop.
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Today, the nation that marshalled the efforts of the public and private sectors to build the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century and the Interstate Highway in the 20th century must again rally around the national priority of infrastructure investment.
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Then on April 24, the airline will begin serving meals to fliers in 10 other major domestic transcontinental markets: from Boston to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle; between Washington DCA airport and LAX; between New York JFK and Portland, Ore.
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When Southern senators withdrew from the Senate to join the rebellion in 1860, the Republican Party suddenly found itself able to pass a wave of stymied legislation: land-grant colleges, a transcontinental railroad, the first federal income tax, and more.
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Within Europe, mergers have proved possible, like the one between British Airways and Iberia which formed IAG, but the big transcontinental deals which have taken place in the pharmaceuticals, automotive and oil and gas industries, have not happened among airlines.
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Whereas their references to industrial progress, such as the Transcontinental Railroad, celebrate Manifest Destiny within the age-old conflict of man versus nature, she merely wanted to exist in nature and become one with nature through her body and free spirit.
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In the 22001s President Abraham Lincoln created land-grant colleges to broaden education; the Homestead Act with land opportunity for new settlers; and the transcontinental railroad to connect the nation's markets—all designed to break down barriers to expanding individual opportunity.
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In 1957, just months before the Soviet Union launched its first Sputnik satellite, he made the first transcontinental supersonic flight, piloting an F8U-1 Crusader from Los Angeles to New York in record time: 3 hours 23 minutes 8.4 seconds.
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Another eccentric airline operating under the Virgin Group brand, Virgin America had bases in California with a focus on West Coast and transcontinental routes, making it ripe for a takeover as it matured and gained market share on popular routes.
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Global Citizen and Teneo are reviving the idea of a transcontinental event at a time of historic global unrest and division -- during a week that President Donald Trump expressed a skeptical view of globalism at the United Nations General Assembly.
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But here in EU-member Slovenia, within the continental climes of folkloric Ljubljana (a petite municipality near Venice on an alluvial plain dating to the Quaternary era), the Americans' art took on oddly gallant, almost fairy tale qualities of transcontinental value.
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PROMONTORY, Utah (Reuters) - Connie Young Yu says that when her parents joined a delegation of fellow Chinese-Americans attending a 2100 event commemorating the centennial of the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad, they were snubbed, upstaged by Hollywood star John Wayne.
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The land was not part of the original territory gained by the Americans at the end of the Mexican War, but the United States government acquired it in 27.7, through the Gadsden Purchase, to build the southern transcontinental railway line.
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He sent a police officer out to fetch a thick blue book, an original copy of a study commissioned by Grover Cleveland in 1895 that considered a possible route for a transcontinental canal, one that would run through not Panama but Nicaragua.
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His November stop in Oxford was part of a tour that also included visits to Berlin and Rome to launch a new transcontinental political party to save the EU by enacting a "Green New Deal" to spread prosperity and tackle global warming.
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Lloyds Bank (A1/A/A+) paid 7bp-17bp in concession for its two-part deal on Tuesday while Transcontinental (Baa2/BBB-/BBB), coughed up an eye-watering premium of 192bp - something not seen in the US high-grade bond market in years.
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"'Cause if it leaks to the VC, he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP." In today's booming technocracy — a transcontinental railroad linking Sand Hill Road to Silicon Alley — the common tongue is peppered with such initialisms.
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Governments of the day stepped in, creating massive economic demand with tax- and debt-supported transcontinental railways, port projects and gun diplomacy in the Victorian boom; and, after World War II, highway construction, policy-backed suburbanization, farm subsidies, and the Cold War.
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Before he went into space, Glenn already had a reputation as one of the best test pilots in the country, setting a transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes in July 1957.
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All the political templates that moved against him domestically shifted in his favor diplomatically: Europe after Waterloo craved peace and stability, and Spanish decline continued, rendering her American possessions indefensible, as Adams made abundantly clear in negotiating the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819.
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It is something that unites us, a truly transcontinental reference point that means 90 year old Portuguese farmers can connect with 17 year-old Lithuanian gymnasts, Venezuelan sailors have got something in common with IT support workers from the depths of Thailand.
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About 66 miles northwest of Salt Lake City, in a vast, desolate expanse, some 20,000 visitors and dignitaries are set to commemorate the 150th anniversary of an event that made possible the California we know today: The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The rigors of transcontinental travel required them to spend three months abroad, an awkward interruption in the lives of men who often worked in factories or oil refineries and feared, with good reason, that representing Romania in Uruguay would cost them their jobs.
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He flew 149 missions as a Marine fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, broke the transcontinental air speed record, served for 24 years in the United States Senate, and founded the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University.
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In its own way, that was a milestone as significant to many travelers frustrated with the current bridge's chronic traffic jams as the driving of the last spike in Utah in 1869 that completed the transcontinental railroad was to Americans of that era.
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He was also a Marine who defended his country in war; a test pilot who flew the first transcontinental flight that averaged supersonic speed; a United States senator who served with both distinction and integrity; and an educator at Ohio State University.
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Millions of people in the Northeast, including holiday travelers trying to make their way home, faced the first significant winter storm of the season on Sunday — a system that left heavy snow and rain in the wake of its transcontinental path east.
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We also have many lesson plans and collections that link to archival reporting we've found for you, such as our recent Vietnam War lesson, or these about the transcontinental railroad, Black history, World War I, the civil rights movement and many more.
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The movement behind the construction of a transcontinental superhighway started in the 1930s when President Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed interest in the construction of a network of toll superhighways that would provide more jobs for people in need of work during the Great Depression.
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PROMONTORY, Utah, May 21869 (Reuters) - Thousands of visitors, many of them train enthusiasts, are expected to crowd onto a remote bluff in northern Utah for a day of speeches, music and a historical re-enactment marking the 21882th anniversary of the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad.
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Williams Cos' Transcontinental Pipe Line Co can continue to transport natural gas through its recently completed Dalton Expansion Project in Georgia, even though Transco still has not paid nearly two dozen landowners for easements over their property, a federal appeals court held on Thursday.
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But to hold that view you have to turn your back on our own history: American greatness was in large part created by government investment or private investment shaped by public support, from the Erie Canal, to the transcontinental railroads, to the Interstate Highway System.
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Franco-Nevada Corp: CIBC raises target price to C$125 from C$120 Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd: CIBC raises target price to C$18.5 from C$18 Transcontinental Inc: National Bank of Canada cuts rating to sector perform from outperform COMMODITIES AT 13:00 a.m.
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She asked Patrick Healy, our politics editor, if The New York Times could make it easier to read articles offline on the paper's smartphone app — an important consideration for a West Coast lawmaker who is regularly confined to transcontinental flights with spotty Wi-Fi.
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The dark side of the Transcontinental Railroad is a story of greed, corruption, venereal disease, pay disparities between white and Chinese laborers, violence unleashed by and against the Plains tribes, and — given the ungodly amount of timber required for ties, bridges, cars and fuel — deforestation.
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Atlantropa appears in the show alongside Stalin's and Mao's megalomaniacal plans for remaking the countryside, and also with the Great Green Wall, the African Union's current and far more benign attempt to transform a 4,700-mile-long, transcontinental swath of desert into arable land.
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Even further into the future, SpaceX aims to replace transcontinental and overseas flights with super-rapid Starship "Earth to Earth" flights; such a scheme may ultimately see 1 million or more launches a year globally, Caryn Schenewerk, SpaceX's senior counsel, said at an FAA conference in January.
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"Our plan has long called for strategic growth of Mint on these valuable transcontinental routes, and now is the right time for us to capture this opportunity to bring much needed competition where customers are facing dwindling choices," JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said in a statement.
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Depending on whom you talk to, a big-rig truck that drives itself would either be a logistical innovation on the order of transcontinental air travel, or the first sign that Stephen King's B-horror flick "Maximum Overdrive" was actually a pretty accurate peek at tomorrow.
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In the decade when Bennett raced to Europe in 13 days, the Atlantic Cable and the Transcontinental Railroad also shrank the world, Mr. Jefferson reminds readers, making this book timely as the America's Cup competition returns to New York next weekend for the first time since 1920.
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We only have to look in America to see the amount of wealth and opportunity that came with the Transcontinental railroad; huge numbers of businesses were created and thrived; information and knowledge spread with greater ease; a new country recovering from civil war was brought together.
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When Svetlana Makhni had her first child in 523, she went on maternity leave from her job in finance in New York, taking a break from the frequent transcontinental flights that had earned her Diamond Medallion status — the highest tier — with Delta Air Lines's loyalty program.
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If it wasn't explicitly a goal for the show to top itself each season, that was the practical result of a story that grew from a clash of clans to a transcontinental war to — this season — a battle against an undead army for the survival of humankind.
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The same year Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1882, it did target an ethnic group when it cut off Chinese immigration under the Chinese Exclusion Act, despite Chinese American contributions to the development of the Western US and to the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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American Airlines offers Flagship Lounge access to first- and business-class passengers on transcontinental and international flights and has opened new ones at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Miami International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport and O'Hare International Airport in Chicago since last year.
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"Job 1 is getting people put back to work — we're talking about Obamacare, the Keystone Pipeline, the Waters in the U.S. and the Clean Power Plan," he said, singling out the transcontinental pipeline that President Obama killed, new clean water regulations and Mr. Obama's climate change plan.
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National Bank of Canada: Credit Suisse raises target price to C$70 from C$69 Transcontinental Inc: CIBC raises target price to C$19 from C$18.50 Trican Well Service Ltd: Scotiabank raises price target to C$1.75 from C$1.30 COMMODITIES AT 7:113.83 a.m.
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Canada aims to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its confederation by completing its transcontinental Great Trail, a 24,000-kilometer, or roughly 15,000-mile, multiuse recreational trail linking Newfoundland in the east to British Columbia in the west, with northern spurs to the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
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Some mothers in Brooklyn said they were thinking about a transcontinental hand-holding — palms clutched from Cobble Hill to Santa Monica — but actions like these are as likely to invite accusations of liberal cluelessness as they are to change minds about the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
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In the 1870s, Fleming was the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and he understood that the completion of the transcontinental railway in the United States, and burgeoning efforts to do the same in Canada, meant the world had become a smaller, more interconnected place.
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"It represents a shrinking of the world, just as the transcontinental railroad and subsonic aviation did before it," says Samuel Hammond, a policy analyst at the Niskanen Center who co-wrote a recent study on the viability of supersonic transportation for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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Less than 10 years after construction of the Statue of Liberty began and 13 years after Chinese immigrants helped unify the country by constructing the Transcontinental Railroad, Congress passed the first-ever federal legislation to ban an entire population based on race, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 85033.
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Italian sides dominated in the 229s, Spanish teams around the turn of the century, the English Premier League's Big Four from 296, and then — starting with Barcelona's victory in 22010 — the age of the transcontinental superclubs began, with Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Real Madrid streaking away from all challengers.
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They distribute all of these and Chinese-produced fentanyl into the U.S. Transcontinental production, primarily from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, descends to Venezuela, their global logistics hub, financing communist regimes and Cuban psychological operations know-how — consequential security, social and political interference in the United States and beyond.
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It's a tune lifted from his forthcoming debut LP, What a Tease (out on Partisan on June 3), a debut entirely inspired by his transcontinental love story with a Dutch girl, who he met in Amsterdam while playing drums and touring with his high school buddy Hanni El Khatib.
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The states did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in issuing the permits needed for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co to expand its connections between gas wells in central Pennsylvania with its main pipeline running from Texas to New York City, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday.
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Fifteen percent of an organization's time is spent in meetings, and every day, the transcontinental conference room known as the white-collar United States plays host to 11 million meetings, according to research collated by Fuze, the telecommunications company (which might have a stake in publicizing research designed to stoke meeting fatigue).
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Sonya Clark's "Edifice and Mortar" (2018) is a handmade brick wall mortared with the hair of African Americans and stamped with text from the US Declaration of Independence; each brick's verso has the Italian word schiavo, which translates to slave, impressed inside an afro, referencing the transcontinental and transhistorical issue of slavery.
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His business thrived as he produced custom interiors for homes of the wealthy in New York as well as in San Francisco's Nob Hill, where the railroad magnates known as the Big Four — Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Mr. Huntington — built mansions after completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
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In the opening story Shacochis profiles Tom Laird, a one-time hippie drifter who joined "the great transcontinental traveling freak show" to Kathmandu in the early 1970s, and there morphed into a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, photographer, mountain guide, development expert, "Sherpaphile" and confidant of the renowned author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen.
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In 1854, the US grabbed another slice of Mexico (the Gadsden Purchase) to create a better route for a southern transcontinental railroad line, and it was commonplace for Southern political leaders at the time to speak openly of their desire to seize more slave territory in Cuba or elsewhere in Latin America.
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GHOSTS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad By Gordon H. Chang Shortly after the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869, James Strobridge — the construction foreman of the Central Pacific Railroad — held a celebratory meal in his private railcar.
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