#73 - PIRATES OF THE CONSTITUTION: History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 1
Subliminal Jihad
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The Shipper's Exceptional and Useful Part
The proceeds of these fortunes frequently were put into factories, canals, turnpikes, and later, into railroads, telegraph lines and express companies. Seldom has the money thus employed really gone to the descendants of the men who amassed it. But has since passed over to men who, by superior cunning, have contrived to get the wealth to their own hands. This statement is an anticipation of facts that will be more cognate in subsequent chapters but may be appropriately referred to here. There were some exceptions to the general condition of the large fortunes from shipping being compactly held in new england. And he, i guess, mentions, a quaker, thomas pimc
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