"Going a long distance out of the way, to come back a short distance correctly"
Atlas Shrugged – Day 064 – pp. 701-710
Welcome to Part III entitled “A is A” (What the hell does that mean?)
When last we left our heroine, she was at the stick of a P-51 North American Mustang fighter plane, gunning down Nazis over Alsace Lorraine, France. . .
Atlas Shrugged – Day 007 – pp. 64-73
And Chapter IV — The Immovable Movers
Dagny returns from a trip to United Locomotive Works in Jersey. She had gone to see the president about why they were unable to deliver the locomotives Taggart had ordered.
As is seemingly the norm, the president is bathing himself in self-absolution.
Upon returning she finds Eddie who tells her that McNamara (the contractor who was to finish the Rio Norte line) has quit. Retired. Quit. Left the business. Walked out on a fortune worth of pending contracts.
Looks like time for a little conflict build-up.