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Fun Fact: the Dakotas have the highest rail concentration in North America and in per capita terms, the highest in the world. This is because of Canadian needs, as the lines through Winnipeg aren't sufficient for their commercial usage. This is a pattern extending back into the 19th Century...

His point on oil is decisive, as I've pointed out to you previously: Persia produces only 2% of American production; the British could steal every drop and the end result is they (and the French) still rapidly and decisively run out of fuel. You can mix and match from this chart and the end...

The Command of Gold Reversed: American Loans to Britain, 1915-1917 by John Milton Cooper, Jr., Pacific Historical Review, May, 1976, Vol. 45, No. 2 (May, 1976), pp. 209-230: The American retaliatory legislation also prompted the British government in September and October 1916 to initiate its...