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The financing of the transcontinental railroad by the federal government was a wholly Hamiltonian policy featuring massive subsidies to corporations that made Midases of Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, and other railway barons in the name of building a critical piece of a growing nation's infrastructure.
Andrei Cherny: Individual Age Economics Andrei Cherny 2011
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For example, if you wonder how Stanford University was born, thank Leland Stanford who founded Leland Stanford Junior University with the equivalent of $400 million (in 2005 dollars) as a tribute to his late son.
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The next year he hooked up with the Sacramento millionaire, Leland Stanford, who piqued Muybridge's interest in race horses and photographing how they moved — settling the question of whether all four feet ever leave the ground at the same time.
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The millionaire Leland Stanford took up racehorses as a pastime.
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Dewey offers no acknowledgement of the entrepreneurs -- John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford, Johns Hopkins -- who helped created these vast resources and founded great universities out of their wealth.
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During this period, names that we recognize today on street signs and public buildings such as Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford began to earn their reputations as "robber barons".
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In the 1800s, German immigrant garden designer Rudolph Ulrich created intricate, formal landscapes for the wealthy, northern California elite such as railroad barons Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker.
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During this period, names that we recognize today on street signs and public buildings such as Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford began to earn their reputations as "robber barons".
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For example, if you wonder how Stanford University was born, thank Leland Stanford who founded Leland Stanford Junior University with the equivalent of $400 million (in 2005 dollars) as a tribute to his late son.
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Governor Leland Stanford of California wrote President Andrew Johnson, "Without the Chinese it would have been impossible to complete the western portion of this great National highway."
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