"How Corporations Created Our Time Zones"
"That a single industry, even a large one, could impose so fundamental a change in the habits of the American people remains a remarkable achievement. The railroads were a conservative, even stodgy, industry. But their leaders were sometimes capable of thinking big."
Railroads were a "conservative, even stodgy" industry in 1883?
Posted by: david foster | February 06, 2012 at 08:02 AM