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# Railroads are the primary mode of overland transport.
 
# Railroads are the primary mode of overland transport.
 
# [[Airline]] service is still a projected service of the novel's future, and [[monoplane]]s are something new.
 
# [[Airline]] service is still a projected service of the novel's future, and [[monoplane]]s are something new.
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# Telephone service was well-established in this era, but had not achieved universal penetration. In one key scene, a low-level foreman complains to Dagny Taggart that most of the men whom she orders him to contact do not have telephone service where they live.
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# [[Telephone]] service was well-established in this era, but had not achieved universal penetration. In one key scene, a low-level foreman complains to Dagny Taggart that most of the men whom she orders him to contact do not have telephone service where they live.
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# Telegraphy, being much cheaper than full-duplex long-distance telephony, was still a prominent method of communication.
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# [[Telegraph]]y, being much cheaper than full-duplex long-distance telephony, was still a prominent method of communication.
 
# The [[United States Navy]] is definitely not the powerful presence on the high seas that it is today, because the combined forces of the Navy are powerless to stop a single [[privateer]] from hijacking every government-ordered relief cargo sent to various "People's States."
 
# The [[United States Navy]] is definitely not the powerful presence on the high seas that it is today, because the combined forces of the Navy are powerless to stop a single [[privateer]] from hijacking every government-ordered relief cargo sent to various "People's States."
 
# Every nation in the world, except the United States of America, is called "People's State of" whatever.
 
# Every nation in the world, except the United States of America, is called "People's State of" whatever.
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