The Making of America: Industry and financeRobert Marion La Follette Arno Press, 1973 - Business & Economics |
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Page 38
... Pennsylvania , found it advisable to adopt the policy of sub- sidizing turnpike companies as early as 1806 , and bridge com- panies in 1811. By 1822 that state had subscribed $ 1,861,000 to the stock of fifty six turnpike companies ...
... Pennsylvania , found it advisable to adopt the policy of sub- sidizing turnpike companies as early as 1806 , and bridge com- panies in 1811. By 1822 that state had subscribed $ 1,861,000 to the stock of fifty six turnpike companies ...
Page 184
... Pennsylvania Railroad company . " At the suggestion of the railroads , accordingly , the Standard Oil company , by ceasing on March 18 , 1877 , to send freight over the Pennsylvania railroad , precipitated a war between the great pipe ...
... Pennsylvania Railroad company . " At the suggestion of the railroads , accordingly , the Standard Oil company , by ceasing on March 18 , 1877 , to send freight over the Pennsylvania railroad , precipitated a war between the great pipe ...
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... Pennsylvania railroad was forced to abandon the struggle , and to sign a contract which gave the Standard Oil ... Pennsylvania railroads were each to carry one third ; of the traffic going to Philadelphia and Baltimore , the Pennsylvania ...
... Pennsylvania railroad was forced to abandon the struggle , and to sign a contract which gave the Standard Oil ... Pennsylvania railroads were each to carry one third ; of the traffic going to Philadelphia and Baltimore , the Pennsylvania ...
Contents
Our Industrial Position in the World | 1 |
The Pioneers of American Industry | 8 |
Concentration of Industry in the United States | 49 |
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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 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 ownership 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