If this is from Thirteen Days... I think it boils down to, don't get shot down and don't report it, otherwise the US would respond with war...which is what we tried to avoid during this time period.
The reason why people were open to new inventions during the Industrial Age was because new inventions made life easier. These new inventions were able to provide a comfortable and better quality of life. One example of this is the invention of the steam engine, where it helped in providing comfort for people thru its utilization for a better transportation (steam engine locomotive).
Pools were agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits. Many companies formed these pools in order to avoid competition by dividing business in a particular area. Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporation then first came in the form of action by the supreme court.
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The chief leaders were Adolf Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy, and Hirohito of Japan.
Columbus believed he had reached Asia when he had traveled less than halfway there because geographical knowledge at the time was limited. They believed if they sailed West they would reach Asia by sea but actually ended up in the Americas. He thought the world was smaller than it actually was.
