A battle had been brewing since 1895, when Pierpont decided
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- The House of Morgan - An American Banking Dynasty and the whole source · open book
A battle had been brewing since 1895, when Pierpont decided not to reorganize the bankrupt Union Pacific, which he scoffed at as “two streaks of iron rust across the plains.”54 His willingness to write off America’s southwestern states provided an opening for outsiders.
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