The Making of America, Volume 3Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors |
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... material should have been subtracted from that of the gross product before dividing it by the number of hands . This would , naturally , reduce the figures , but it would reduce them practically in the same proportion . This enormous ...
... material should have been subtracted from that of the gross product before dividing it by the number of hands . This would , naturally , reduce the figures , but it would reduce them practically in the same proportion . This enormous ...
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... materials , raw materials for manufactures , or manufactured goods , which are not produced in this country ; so that there is little occasion for purchasing goods derived from foreign sources . Hence , our imports are small , being ...
... materials , raw materials for manufactures , or manufactured goods , which are not produced in this country ; so that there is little occasion for purchasing goods derived from foreign sources . Hence , our imports are small , being ...
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... materials with a small outlay of labor . Before they can utilize these advantages , certain favoring conditions must be present . They must be able to dispose of these commodities in ex- change for the commodities which they cannot so ...
... materials with a small outlay of labor . Before they can utilize these advantages , certain favoring conditions must be present . They must be able to dispose of these commodities in ex- change for the commodities which they cannot so ...
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... material out of which we could easily create a wage - earning class at the time when we needed to organize labor in order to construct our railroads and develop manufactures . In the south , where even agri- culture required the ...
... material out of which we could easily create a wage - earning class at the time when we needed to organize labor in order to construct our railroads and develop manufactures . In the south , where even agri- culture required the ...
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... material , which provided New Eng- land and the middle colonies with their most important mar- ket . In exactly the same way the introduction and spread of cotton and sugar culture into the southern part of the Missis- sippi valley led ...
... material , which provided New Eng- land and the middle colonies with their most important mar- ket . In exactly the same way the introduction and spread of cotton and sugar culture into the southern part of the Missis- sippi valley led ...
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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