Harvey Wasserman's History of the United StatesHarper & Row, 1975 - 262 pages |
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Page 108
... companies around the bankrupt Richmond Terminal System to create the Southern Railway Company , involving some 7500 miles of road . In 1902 he added the Louisville and Nashville and soon controlled 20,000 miles of track in the South ...
... companies around the bankrupt Richmond Terminal System to create the Southern Railway Company , involving some 7500 miles of road . In 1902 he added the Louisville and Nashville and soon controlled 20,000 miles of track in the South ...
Page 130
... Company touched off the Second Great Railway Strike . The ' Pullman factory - model city complex had been built by the company in the early eighties as an experiment in labor rela- tions . George Pullman explained the arrangement as ...
... Company touched off the Second Great Railway Strike . The ' Pullman factory - model city complex had been built by the company in the early eighties as an experiment in labor rela- tions . George Pullman explained the arrangement as ...
Page 154
... Company in Chicago were replaced by scabs . Workers in firms supplying Lamm and Company “ sabo- taged ' their work to such perfection " that the company caved in almost immediately . In the wheatfields of Kansas signs announced “ $ 3.00 ...
... Company in Chicago were replaced by scabs . Workers in firms supplying Lamm and Company “ sabo- taged ' their work to such perfection " that the company caved in almost immediately . In the wheatfields of Kansas signs announced “ $ 3.00 ...
Contents
The Robber Barons | 3 |
The People | 52 |
The Revolt of the Farmers | 61 |
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