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AtlasShrugged|Section111

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

* Plot summary
[[/Eddie Willers|Eddie Willers]], walking through downtown Manhattan, wonders why the world seems to be slowly falling apart.  He returns to the Taggart Transcontinental Building in order to tell [[/James Taggart|James Taggart]] the bad news about an unfulfilled steel order and another train wreck, and to make [[/James Taggart|Taggart]] see the seriousness of the situation the business is in because it can't get steel to replace its aging railroad tracks.
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* Setting
Downtown New York, and in the Taggart Transcontinental Building.
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* Characters
 /BumNumber1 - First and only appearance.
 [[/Eddie Willers|Eddie Willers]]
 [[/Ellis Wyatt|Ellis Wyatt]] - Mentioned.
 [[/James Taggart|James Taggart]]
 /OrrenBoyle - Mentioned.
 /PopHarper - First and only apearance.
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* Mysteries
The question "Who is John Galt?" opens the book and is repeated over and over.  Who is John Galt?  Where did the phrase come from?  What does it mean?