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This company operated a railroad between Baltimore and Washington, but its ambition was build a route to the Ohio River, and move commerce from the west through the City of Baltimore.
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Jensen was born August 24, 1923, in San Diego, California, the son of Linda Mary ( née Schachtmayer ) and Arthur Alfred Jensen, who operated and owned a lumber and building materials company.
* Bell Media, a Canadian media company, operated by Bell Canada
Horse buses operated in many cities during the later part of the 1800s and early 1900s with one company in London operating 220 horse-buses by 1880.
) are operated by the state owned company Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado ( EFE ), which completed a major investment programme in 2005.
An inbound call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information inquiries from consumers.
Raya is owned by Vodafone Egypt, Nileonline and Egynet are now owned by Etisalat, TEdata is owned and operated by the oldest telecom company in the region telecom Egypt and link. net is owned by Orascom telecom.
There is a total of of railway in France, mostly operated by SNCF, the French national railway company.
This company later operated as the Eastern Telegraph Company from Mount Pleasant in Gibraltar and eventually became Cable & Wireless.
In mid-August 2012, the company announced that it will be establishing a chain of 100 economy hotels in Europe but, unlike its few existing hotels in Scandinavia, they will not carry the Ikea name nor will they use Ikea furniture and furnishings-they will be operated by an unnamed international group of hoteliers.
The LTTE members operated a cargo company called " Otharad Cargo " in the United Arab Emirates.
Unlike the system it replaces, the buses are owned and operated by a single company with the drivers working for Arriva Malta.
* 717 km total of single track ( standard gauge ), owned and operated by a government mining company, Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière ( National Mining and Industrial Company, SNIM ).
* Morpheus ( computer program ), file-sharing client / server software operated by the company StreamCast
In the pure sense of the term, a merger happens when two firms agree to go forward as a single new company rather than remain separately owned and operated.
In December 2008, a mobile phone service was launched in Pyongyang, operated by Egyptian company Orascom, with current plans to expand coverage to all parts of the country.
Each state also has a broadcasting company that broadcasts one or two locally operated terrestrial stations.
His father owned and operated an import-export company, and because of business obligations, the family relocated often.
Services were run by a large number of companies, but in 1929 all these were unified into the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe ( Berlin Transport Services ) company, which has operated Berlin ’ s trams ever since.
In 2002, the Qatari government launched Mowasalat, a company 100 % owned by the Royal family, managed and operated by the state authorities to ensure the smooth provision of " integrated ground transport services " for the entire country with a growing population of more than 1, 400, 000 people.
Lackey operated BlueIraq, a VSAT communications and IT company serving the DoD and domestic markets in Iraq and Afghanistan during the US conflicts.
Prior to the construction of these infrastructures, transbay transportation was dominated by fleets of ferryboats operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Key System transit company.
The vehicles are described as to be operated by the South African company Executive Outcomes.
Transport facilities on both reaches were operated after 1973 by the parastatal ( mixed government and privately owned company ) River Transport Corporation ( RTC ).
In addition numerous narrow gauge railways are operated, the largest company of its kind being the Rhaetian Railways.
The two stations were experimental in nature and had no regular programming, as receivers were operated by engineers within the company.
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In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.
Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.
Abraham Lincoln was the lead defense lawyer for the railroad company.
While the company helped build some schools, it opposed the building highways, as they would compete with the UFC's railroad monopoly.
Most of the disoperation of the railroad in Haiti is due to Bankruptcy, and closure of the company who supported the construction of the railroad.
A locomotive moves across the outfield and whistles after home runs, paying homage to a Houston history which had eleven railroad company lines running through the city by 1860.
Krupp was the first company to patent a seamless, reliable and strong enough railroad tire for rail freight.
In 1910, Flaherty was hired as an explorer and prospector along the Hudson Bay for a Canadian railroad company.
Flaherty began his career as a prospector in the Hudson Bay region of Canada, working for a railroad company.
* On 7 July 2005 the Syrian General Establishment for the Hejaz Railway announced that it had signed a contract worth US $ 54 million with a Lebanese company to build a railroad between Damascus and Damascus International Airport.
The injunction ultimately succeeded in ending the strike ; however, tensions remained high between railroad workers and company men for years.
The race was on to see which railroad company could build the longest section of track and receive the most land and government bonds.
Under Durant's guidance the company was charging Union Pacific often twice or more the customary cost for track work ( thus in effect paying himself to build the railroad ).
* Norfolk Southern Railway, an American railroad company
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande or D & RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, is a defunct U. S. railroad company.
He was not as successful in railroad promoting as in war, and under his direction, the company went bankrupt.
In December 1871 he left the railroad yards for work on the railways as a locomotive fireman for the same company.
Debs was represented by Clarence Darrow, hitherto a corporate lawyer for the railroad company, who " switched sides " to represent Debs.
When there was not enough industry in the areas Hill was building, Hill brought the industry in, often by buying out a company and placing plants along his railroad lines.
As a result, one feature Hill integrated into the construction of the 1887 company headquarters ( the Great Northern General Office Building ) was barrel vaulted ceilings constructed of brick and railroad steel rails that held up a layer of sand several inches deep.
* In 1993 Amtrak's Sunset Limited daily railroad train was extended eastward to the Atlantic Ocean, making it the first transcontinental passenger train route in the United States to be operated by a single company.
Prior to the Elkins Act, the livestock and petroleum industries paid standard rail shipping rates, but then would demand that the railroad company give them rebates.
* Genesee and Wyoming Inc a railroad operating company based in Greenwich, Connecticut in the U. S.
In response to the opening of the Erie Canal, which was in direct competition with the port of Baltimore, Benjamin Williams became one of the founders of the first railroad company in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, chartered on 24 April 1827.
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