³1username³2TimShell³2name³2text_default³2version³21³2ts³2981088834³2ip³224.25.202.235³2data³2newauthor³31³3minor³30³3text³3/DagnyTaggart visits /UnitedLocomotiveWorks to determine why they consistently fail to deliver the Diesel engines she ordered.  The /PresidentofULW talks four hours without answering directly or saying anything of substance.  After returning to the office, /EddieWillers informs Dagny that /McNamara has quit without explanation.  As Dagny walks home that night she sees the depravity that passes for popular culture: books and movies that trivialize what is glorious, demonize what is moral, and exalt what is base; people who act as if pleasure were a sin that one gets away with.  Depressed, she returns home and listens the soul tonic of /RichardHalley.  As she sits, she sees in the newspaper that /FranciscoDAnconia has returned to /NewYork amidst a scandal in which a married woman tried to kill her husband so she could be with Francisco, who she identifies as her lover.  Francisco says he came to New York to witness the farce - but it is not the farce people are led to beleive that he wants to witness.
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* Foreshadow

Dagny sees a precision machine tool anandoned and decaying in the /UnitedLocomotiveWorks  factory; abandoned not because it was valueless, but because the owners could not extract value from it.  This foreshadows another discovery in an even less competent factory - a motor that is pricelss, but which is left abandoned by people who could not see its value.
³3summary³3*³2tscreate³2981088834³2keepts³2981089018³2id³21149³2host³224-25-202-235.san.rr.com³2revision³21³1username³2TimShell³2name³2text_default³2version³21³2ts³2981089018³2ip³224.25.202.235³2data³2text³3/DagnyTaggart visits /UnitedLocomotiveWorks to determine why they consistently fail to deliver the Diesel engines she ordered.  The /PresidentofULW talks four hours without answering directly or saying anything of substance.  After returning to the office, /EddieWillers informs Dagny that /McNamara has quit without explanation.  As Dagny walks home that night she sees the depravity that passes for popular culture: books and movies that trivialize what is glorious, demonize what is moral, and exalt what is base; people who act as if pleasure were a sin that one gets away with.  Depressed, she returns home and listens the soul tonic of /RichardHalley.  While she listens, she recalls Halley's struggles as a young composer, his sudden success, and his mysterious disappearance.  She sees in the newspaper that /FranciscoDAnconia has returned to /NewYork amidst a scandal in which a married woman tried to kill her husband so she could be with Francisco, who she identifies as her lover.  Francisco says he came to New York to witness the farce - but it is not the farce people are led to beleive that he wants to witness.
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* Foreshadow

Dagny sees a precision machine tool anandoned and decaying in the /UnitedLocomotiveWorks  factory; abandoned not because it was valueless, but because the owners could not extract value from it.  This foreshadows another discovery in an even less competent factory - a motor that is pricelss, but which is left abandoned by people who could not see its value.
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The folowing characters appear in /SectioN141:

 /ChiefEngineer
 /DagnyTaggart
 /EddieWillers
 /FranciscoDAnconia
 /GilbertVail
 /McNamara - Mentioned.
 /MrsGilbertVail
 /PresidentofULW
 /RichardHalley 
³3minor³31³3newauthor³30³3summary³3*³2tscreate³2981088834³2keepts³2981090242³2id³21149³2host³224-25-202-235.san.rr.com³2revision³22³1username³2TimShell³2name³2text_default³2version³21³2ts³2981090242³2ip³224.25.202.235³2data³2newauthor³30³3minor³31³3text³3/DagnyTaggart visits /UnitedLocomotiveWorks to determine why they consistently fail to deliver the Diesel engines she ordered.  The /PresidentofULW talks four hours without answering directly or saying anything of substance.  After returning to the office, /EddieWillers informs Dagny that /McNamara has quit without explanation.  As Dagny walks home that night she sees the depravity that passes for popular culture: books and movies that trivialize what is glorious, demonize what is moral, and exalt what is base; people who act as if pleasure were a sin that one gets away with.  Depressed, she returns home and listens the soul tonic of /RichardHalley.  While she listens, she recalls Halley's struggles as a young composer, his sudden success, and his mysterious disappearance.  She sees in the newspaper that /FranciscoDAnconia has returned to /NewYork amidst a scandal in which a married woman tried to kill her husband so she could be with Francisco, who she identifies as her lover.  Francisco says he came to New York to witness the farce - but it is not the farce people are led to beleive that he wants to witness.
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* Setting
The offices of Taggart Transcontinental, New York in the evening, Dagny's apartment.
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* Foreshadow

Dagny sees a precision machine tool anandoned and decaying in the /UnitedLocomotiveWorks  factory; abandoned not because it was valueless, but because the owners could not extract value from it.  This foreshadows another discovery in an even less competent factory - a motor that is pricelss, but which is left abandoned by people who could not see its value.
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The folowing characters appear in /SectioN141:

 /ChiefEngineer
 /DagnyTaggart
 /EddieWillers
 /FranciscoDAnconia
 /GilbertVail
 /McNamara - Mentioned.
 /MrsGilbertVail
 /PresidentofULW
 /RichardHalley 
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