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... field of manu- facture is , in many respects , quite as strong as in agriculture . Of the cotton cloth of the world we make more than one fourth , being excelled by Great Britain only . Of the woolen cloth we make nearly one fifth ...
... field of manu- facture is , in many respects , quite as strong as in agriculture . Of the cotton cloth of the world we make more than one fourth , being excelled by Great Britain only . Of the woolen cloth we make nearly one fifth ...
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... field of industry . Americans are not accus- tomed to think of their own country as taking a very promi- nent part in this movement , much less as having ever occupied a leading position in it . To them , as to the rest of the world ...
... field of industry . Americans are not accus- tomed to think of their own country as taking a very promi- nent part in this movement , much less as having ever occupied a leading position in it . To them , as to the rest of the world ...
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... field for the employment of the labor and capital of this section , and this economic advantage went chiefly to the revival and extension of the slave system . But its effect upon the northern states , especially the newer states of the ...
... field for the employment of the labor and capital of this section , and this economic advantage went chiefly to the revival and extension of the slave system . But its effect upon the northern states , especially the newer states of the ...
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... field open to the commercial capital of the northeast . An eager rivalry arose among the commercial cities of the ... field for the adventure of pioneers . The enterprise and capital of the country turned away from the ocean and foreign ...
... field open to the commercial capital of the northeast . An eager rivalry arose among the commercial cities of the ... field for the adventure of pioneers . The enterprise and capital of the country turned away from the ocean and foreign ...
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Robert Marion La Follette William M. Handy, Charles Higgins. a new field for its operation . One of the most striking features of the new period was the increase of speculative activity everywhere in American industry . This was largely ...
Robert Marion La Follette William M. Handy, Charles Higgins. a new field for its operation . One of the most striking features of the new period was the increase of speculative activity everywhere in American industry . This was largely ...
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advantages aggregate American amount average stockholding canal capital stock Carnegie Steel company census cent charter Chicago cities coal combination commerce commission competition consolidation corporations cost cotton crude oil deposits distribution dividends dollars earnings economic engineering England enterprises Erie railroad established existence fact favor freight funds important increase independent individual industrial institutions insurance companies interest investment investor J. P. Morgan labor large number less loans machinery manufacturing ment methods million monopoly national banks Ohio Ohio river operation organization output pany Pennsylvania period pipe lines Pittsburg plants policy holder present production profits promoter purchase question railroad railway refiners result roads savings secure shares South Improvement company speculative Standard Oil company Standard Oil trust supply surplus tion trade transportation trust companies twenty union United wages wealth York York Central railroad