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and had worked with.

Finally he said, “There's this fellow Andrews. I happen to know that you could get him now. “He's just completing a job which he was asked to take on. It was straightening out the Cuban Railroad, the railroad that operates all over the island of Cuba.” That road had been in very bad condition. The rolling stock was run-down. The roadbed was run-down. The whole problem of transportation had been developed piecemeal or hit or miss. In other words, it wasn't being run like a first-class railroad. It was just run accidentally by the sugar companies to transport freight at their convenience. It didn't have any of those facilities that a railroad should have. The stock-holders grumbled about it because it lost money all the time. The residents were complaining about it because there were never any trains they could travel on, or ship their freight on. The government was screaming about its carrying the mails and all that.

I don't know how Moses had gotten into it. He may have been on the board of directors, for all I know. There was a board of directors on which some Americans sat. Anyhow, this fellow Andrews was not too many years out of an engineering school. His engineering school was either the University of Maine or Colby. I tend to think it was the University of Maine, though I may be wrong and it may have