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Atlas Shrugged, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 1:

- Plot summary

James Taggart, /OrrenBoyle, /PaulLarkin, and /WesleyMouch meet to work out a deal by which they can stop Hank Rearden and the success of /ReardenMetal. Boyle wants Taggart to get his friends in /Washington to regulate the distribution of iron ore, depriving Rearden of the raw materials needed to market Rearden Metal. In exchange, Boyle agrees to get the /NationalAllianceofRailroads to drive the /PhoenixDurango railroad out of business. None of this is said openly or directly, of course. Taggart also learns from Boyle that /TaggartTranscontinental's /SanSebastianLine has been denuded of all but the barest equipment.

- Setting

The most expensive barroom in New York, on the 60th floor of a skyscraper, designed to look like a cellar.

- Characters

     /BartendeR: First and only appearance.
     James Taggart
     /OrrenBoyle
     /PaulLarkin
     /WaiteR: First and only appearance.
     /WesleyMouch

- Pregnant Passages

"It all depends," James Taggart answered slowly, "on the people who make it possible...That's what has to be known - who makes it possible."

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