Posted AT 6:00 AM EST on 01/08/08
A new challenge, but the same old mistakes
U.S. railway magnate Thomas Clark Durant used to take congressmen and high-level bureaucrats to lunch. When building the Union Pacific railway in the 1860s, for example, he once took 150 of them halfway across the continent by train to show off the progress he was making.
He took along an orchestra, six cooks and a magician. He fed them Chinese duck, Roman goose, roast ox and antelope. He served expensive wines and fresh fruit.
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