We owe the greatest infrastructure project in the history of the world to the fact that, in 1919, a young U.S. Army captain named Eisenhower was bored.
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Foreign trade, import and export alike, has been indispensable in building America from the very start, and many of our worst economic troubles have arisen when that trade wasn’t free enough.
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THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WAS SO WONDERFUL THAT EVERYBODY HOPED IT WAS A PROPHECY OF WHAT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HELD IN STORE. BUT IN FACT, THE CITY THAT MOUNTED IT WAS.
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First heard just a century ago at the Chicago fair, Frederick Jackson Turner’s epochal essay on the Western frontier expressed a conflict in the American psyche that still tears at us.
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