Elementary Economics: With Special Reference to Social and Business Conditions in the United States |
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advantage American amount balance of trade bank bushel buyers cent clothing coins common competition competitors consumers consumption coöperation corn corporation cost demand desire division of labor dollars economic rent effect efficiency employer exchange EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS Explain factors of production farm farmer fixed gold Gresham's law important income increase individual industry Interstate Commerce Act investment labor and capital large-scale production less loan manufactures marginal utility market price maximum price ment merchant methods monopolist monopoly nature Obviously operation organized labor Outlines of Economics owner practice Principles of Economics profits protection railroad regulation result retailers saving SEAGER SELIGMAN sell sellers shoes silver social socialistic society Standard Oil Company Study of Economics substitute SUPPLEMENTARY READING BULLOCK supply Suppose surplus tariff TAUSSIG trade trusts usually utility wages wealth wheat workers
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Page 185 - ... in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may, upon payment of the fees required by law and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 164 - shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage. All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just ; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 164 - Columbia, or from one place in a territory to another place in the same territory, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States...
Page 164 - railroad' as used in this act shall Include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease; and the term 'transportation' shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage.
Page 164 - Columbia, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also...
Page 400 - A special assessment is a payment made once and for all to defray the cost of a specific improvement to property undertaken in the public interest, and levied by the government in proportion to the particular benefit accruing to the property owner.
Page 184 - ... not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 164 - ... in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of transshipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the United States or an adjacent foreign country...