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How the Transcontinental Railroad change the community. This was part of a symposium marking the railroads 150th anniversary. Your sponsor today of the Stanford Historical society provides members and supporters access and trying to be objective about telling the whole story to lectures and special events, membership is open to anyone, whether you are affiliated with Stanford University as an alum list, a faculty member, staff member or just live in the area or live outside of the area and are interested in history and the impact that stanford has had in the development of the nation. Please visit us in the reception area regarding membership or tell a friend to visit us at the Stanford Historical society. As i am mentioning the historical society, our next week or just happens to serve as the president of the Stanford Historical society. Doctor laura jones is responsible for Stanford University nearly 100 archaeological sites and 200 historic buildings. She earned her masters degree f
Or you can continue with us talking about americas middle class, hearing different stories from people around the country. Ellicott city, maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. Issue with the definition of middleclass. Different in is different states of the country. Host do you consider yourself middleclass, ahmed . Caller with the current definitions, yes i am. But another essays have, in the past few years and longer than that that of show that when we have economic downturn, many up ourwho lined middleclass. They are prone to Health Problems. When a Health Problem takes place, they became very poor. There are not many assets for these individuals in most cases and they do not have the cushion to absorb any of the crises. He talked to a woman earlier who andd on Social Security rented a place, but she said that was all she had. If she does not have the rental money, she is not able to survive. This. E to look into it. Ust got to revisit the American People are distribution the
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Documents back and forth to each other. Flagler was standard oils railroad man. He was the person who worked out the deals with the railroads in new york and pennsylvania and ohio to all standard oils products. And flagler was noted for driving hard bargains, that he would get rebates from the railroads which would be reduced rates for flaglers, for standards products. Mek standard a big advantage over his competitors and that it could ship more cheaply over the railroads than they could. The other thing that flagler did was that he our region and the of the standard oil trust, a way of combining various Refining Companies into one big organization. Later on john d. Rockefeller was asked, who had come up with the idea and rockefeller said come well, i wish i had the brains to think of it but it was Henry Flaglers idea. So he was the key person in standard oil although hes not given much credit in the general histories. By the 1880s, standard oil was complete, it was a finished work. It