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It
was
the
first
failure
in
the
history
of
Rearden
Steel
.
For
the
first
time
,
an
order
was
not
delivered
as
promised
.
But
by
February
15
,
when
the
Taggart
rail
was
due
,
it
made
no
difference
to
anyone
any
longer
.
Winter
had
come
early
,
in
the
last
days
of
November
.
People
said
that
it
was
the
hardest
winter
on
record
and
that
no
one
could
be
blamed
for
the
unusual
severity
of
the
snowstorms
.
They
did
not
care
to
remember
that
there
had
been
a
time
when
snowstorms
did
not
sweep
,
unresisted
,
down
unlighted
roads
and
upon
the
roofs
of
unheated
houses
,
did
not
stop
the
movement
of
trains
,
did
not
leave
a
wake
of
corpses
counted
by
the
hundreds
.
The
first
time
that
Danagger
Coal
was
late
in
delivering
fuel
to
Taggart
Transcontinental
,
in
the
last
week
of
December
,
Danagger
’
s
cousin
explained
that
he
could
not
help
it
;
he
had
had
to
cut
the
workday
down
to
six
hours
,
he
said
,
in
order
to
raise
the
morale
of
the
men
who
did
not
seem
to
function
as
they
had
in
the
days
of
his
cousin
Kenneth
;
the
men
had
become
listless
and
sloppy
,
he
said
,
because
they
were
exhausted
by
the
harsh
discipline
of
the
former
management
;
he
could
not
help
it
if
some
of
the
superintendents
and
foremen
had
quit
him
without
reason
,
men
who
had
been
with
the
company
for
ten
to
twenty
years
;
he
could
not
help
it
if
there
seemed
to
be
some
friction
between
his
workers
and
his
new
supervisory
staff
,
even
though
the
new
men
were
much
more
liberal
than
the
old
slave
drivers
;
it
was
only
a
matter
of
readjustment
,
he
said
.
He
could
not
help
it
,
he
said
,
if
the
tonnage
intended
for
Taggart
Transcontinental
had
been
turned
over
,
on
the
eve
of
its
scheduled
delivery
,
to
the
Bureau
of
Global
Relief
for
shipment
to
the
People
’
s
State
of
England
;
it
was
an
emergency
,
the
people
of
England
were
starving
,
with
all
of
their
State
factories
closing
down
—
and
Miss
Taggart
was
being
unreasonable
,
since
it
was
only
a
matter
of
one
day
’
s
delay
.
It
was
only
one
day
’
s
delay
.
It
caused
a
three
days
’
delay
in
the
run
of
Freight
Train
Number
386
,
bound
from
California
to
New
York
with
fifty
-
nine
carloads
of
lettuce
and
oranges
.
Freight
Train
Number
386
waited
on
sidings
,
at
coaling
stations
,
for
the
fuel
that
had
not
arrived
.
When
the
train
reached
New
York
,
the
lettuce
and
oranges
had
to
be
dumped
into
the
East
River
:
they
had
waited
their
turn
too
long
in
the
freight
houses
of
California
,
with
the
train
schedules
cut
and
the
engines
forbidden
,
by
directive
,
to
pull
a
train
of
more
than
sixty
cars
.
Nobody
but
their
friends
and
trade
associates
noticed
that
three
orange
growers
in
California
went
out
of
business
,
as
well
as
two
lettuce
farmers
in
Imperial
Valley
;
nobody
noticed
the
closing
of
a
commission
house
in
New
York
,
of
a
plumbing
company
to
which
the
commission
house
owed
money
,
of
a
lead
-
pipe
wholesaler
who
had
supplied
the
plumbing
company
.
When
people
were
starving
,
said
the
newspapers
,
one
did
not
have
to
feel
concern
over
the
failures
of
business
enterprises
which
were
only
private
ventures
for
private
profit
.
The
coal
shipped
across
the
Atlantic
by
the
Bureau
of
Global
Relief
did
not
reach
the
People
’
s
State
of
England
:
it
was
seized
by
Ragnar
Danneskjold
.
The
second
time
that
Danagger
Coal
was
late
in
delivering
fuel
to
Taggart
Transcontinental
,
in
mid
-
January
,
Danagger
’
s
cousin
snarled
over
the
telephone
that
he
could
not
help
it
:
his
mines
had
been
shut
down
for
three
days
,
due
to
a
shortage
of
lubricating
oil
for
the
machinery
.
The
supply
of
coal
to
Taggart
Transcontinental
was
four
days
late
.
Mr
.
Quinn
,
of
the
Quinn
Ball
Bearing
Company
which
had
once
moved
from
Connecticut
to
Colorado
,
waited
a
week
for
the
freight
train
that
carried
his
order
of
Rearden
steel
.
When
the
train
arrived
,
the
doors
of
the
Quinn
Ball
Bearing
Company
’
s
plant
were
closed
.
Nobody
traced
the
closing
of
a
motor
company
in
Michigan
,
that
had
waited
for
a
shipment
of
ball
bearings
,
its
machinery
idle
,
its
workers
on
full
pay
;
or
the
closing
of
a
sawmill
in
Oregon
,
that
had
waited
for
a
new
motor
;
or
the
closing
of
a
lumber
yard
in
Iowa
,
left
without
supply
;
or
the
bankruptcy
of
a
building
contractor
in
Illinois
who
,
failing
to
get
his
lumber
on
time
,
found
his
contracts
cancelled
and
the
purchasers
of
his
homes
sent
wandering
off
down
snowswept
roads
in
search
of
that
which
did
not
exist
anywhere
any
longer
.
