Tag: hughAkston

  • Decision Day!

    Atlas Shrugged – Day 074 – pp. 802-811

    I can’t wait!!

    “Yes or no, Miss Taggart?”

    She’s at a meeting with the “heads” of state — Mulligan, Galt, Francisco and Hugh Akston.

    Now I think we all know what her answer will be. The only question is whether she goes back to save the railroad or to save Hank.

    So what is her decision?

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  • Welcome to paradise

    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. . .

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  • One step from victory. . .

    Atlas Shrugged – Day 033 – pp. 324-333

    As Dagny gets ready to leave, Ivy is babbling on about how she never concerned herself with the things in the lab. But she does remember the Chief of the lab’s name.

    “William Hastings. That was his name — William Hastings. I remember. He went off to Brandon, Wyoming. He quit the day after we introduced the plan. He was the second man to quit us . . . No, No, I don’t remember who was the first. He wasn’t anybody importnat.”

    The guy possibly overseeing the building of a revolutionary motor not sticking around for a socialist ass-whuppin’. Go figure. But he was not the first. Who was? Maybe the guy inventing the motor? No one important?

    But it’s off to Wyoming.

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