The Making of America, Volume 3Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors |
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... regard to manufactories there were , as we should expect , a great number of small , local ones , producing articles of prime necessity . Almost every community had one or more grist and sawmills ; and very many had forges , tanneries ...
... regard to manufactories there were , as we should expect , a great number of small , local ones , producing articles of prime necessity . Almost every community had one or more grist and sawmills ; and very many had forges , tanneries ...
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... regard- ed by the English public . From the point of view of the investor , canals in England had been very satisfactory . Eighty companies , with a total capital of $ 150,000,000 , re- ported in 1825 an average dividend of 5 per cent ...
... regard- ed by the English public . From the point of view of the investor , canals in England had been very satisfactory . Eighty companies , with a total capital of $ 150,000,000 , re- ported in 1825 an average dividend of 5 per cent ...
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... regards the advantages of mere size as in themselves sufficient to support a trust . The issue is one of fact which cannot easily be resolved . For it is not possible , I think , to find a trust or strong corporation which has not ...
... regards the advantages of mere size as in themselves sufficient to support a trust . The issue is one of fact which cannot easily be resolved . For it is not possible , I think , to find a trust or strong corporation which has not ...
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... regard to active competition . This was the condition of affairs up to the closing years of the last century ... regards the actual operations of manufacture . It was now seen that there lay a great field for economies outside the work ...
... regard to active competition . This was the condition of affairs up to the closing years of the last century ... regards the actual operations of manufacture . It was now seen that there lay a great field for economies outside the work ...
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... regards the disposition of their products . Had the motive been primarily one to lessen competition , the union would have taken place along different lines . The insistence that Mr. Schwab lays upon this point , in his testimony before ...
... regards the disposition of their products . Had the motive been primarily one to lessen competition , the union would have taken place along different lines . The insistence that Mr. Schwab lays upon this point , in his testimony before ...
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