The Making of America, Volume 3Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors |
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... half the world's crop of the former and a fourth of the latter , leading the world in these two cereals . Of rice we produce but a trifling amount , in comparison with the enormous crops of China and India . As with corn , so with ...
... half the world's crop of the former and a fourth of the latter , leading the world in these two cereals . Of rice we produce but a trifling amount , in comparison with the enormous crops of China and India . As with corn , so with ...
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... half that of the world , three times as much as Great Britain , and nearly four times as much as France . Of glass , we make nearly a third of the world's product , while France , our nearest com- petitor , makes less than one fourth ...
... half that of the world , three times as much as Great Britain , and nearly four times as much as France . Of glass , we make nearly a third of the world's product , while France , our nearest com- petitor , makes less than one fourth ...
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... half of the amount which sails under the United States flag . The next is Germany , which possesses 8 per cent only . It will be seen from this that although our mer- chant fleet is little more than half that of Great Britain , it is ...
... half of the amount which sails under the United States flag . The next is Germany , which possesses 8 per cent only . It will be seen from this that although our mer- chant fleet is little more than half that of Great Britain , it is ...
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... half and two million people living west of the mountains at the outbreak of the war of 1812 . Great as was this movement of people into the west , its economic influence was very slight . The general character of the industry of the ...
... half and two million people living west of the mountains at the outbreak of the war of 1812 . Great as was this movement of people into the west , its economic influence was very slight . The general character of the industry of the ...
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... half a million dollars . The great majority of both banks and insur- ance companies were small concerns with less than $ 100,000 capital . Two or three of the big textile manufacturing com- panies of New England had about a million ...
... half a million dollars . The great majority of both banks and insur- ance companies were small concerns with less than $ 100,000 capital . Two or three of the big textile manufacturing com- panies of New England had about a million ...
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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