AtlasShrugged|SectioN131
Atlas Shrugged, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 1:
- Plot summary
JamesTaggart, 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.
WaiteR: First and only appearance.
- 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."