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To: grundle

Well, yeah, but that didn’t prevent Rand from making high speed trains a big thing in her novel.


20 posted on 10/09/2022 4:09:40 PM PDT by x
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Well, yeah, but that didn’t prevent Rand from making high speed trains a big thing in her novel.

The modern concept of high-speed trains didn't exist in the early fifties. She wrote only about transportation.

31 posted on 10/09/2022 6:41:00 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas)
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Unfortunately Rand had bad timing, Atlas Shrugged was a book written about a 30’s society that was published in 1955 when America was unquestionably ascendant.


35 posted on 10/09/2022 6:50:18 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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