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"In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."
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"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
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"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."
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"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."
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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car."
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"The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific."
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"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."
Business
"In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government."
Government
"People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned."
People
"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."
Progress
"The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California."
Discovery
"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
Competition
"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads."
Development
"The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad."
History
"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history."
History
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