The Plain Facts as to the Trusts and the Tariff: With Chapters on the Railroad Problem and Municipal MonopoliesMacmillan, 1902 - 451 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page 20
... British would or could continue their foreign trade year after year with an annual loss of three - quarters of a billion . Another wrote as if the sugar trust were liberal in taking as small a profit as it has . The Relation is ...
... British would or could continue their foreign trade year after year with an annual loss of three - quarters of a billion . Another wrote as if the sugar trust were liberal in taking as small a profit as it has . The Relation is ...
Page 22
... British railways , for repairing and manufacturing , nearly a hundred trades are represented ( Webb , Industrial Democracy , 353. ) Successful in Department Stores . - The success of uniting different lines in department stores , which ...
... British railways , for repairing and manufacturing , nearly a hundred trades are represented ( Webb , Industrial Democracy , 353. ) Successful in Department Stores . - The success of uniting different lines in department stores , which ...
Page 29
... British coal and iron industries converted into corporations at high valuation in the great pros- perity of 1872 , " most of those that did not speedily disappear have been derelicts ever since ; and some of them only just managed to ...
... British coal and iron industries converted into corporations at high valuation in the great pros- perity of 1872 , " most of those that did not speedily disappear have been derelicts ever since ; and some of them only just managed to ...
Page 31
... British railroads have bought many competing canals , while gas and elec- tric companies sometimes unite . A street car company was said to have opposed better paving for fear cabs would be more used . By keeping price everywhere just ...
... British railroads have bought many competing canals , while gas and elec- tric companies sometimes unite . A street car company was said to have opposed better paving for fear cabs would be more used . By keeping price everywhere just ...
Page 50
... British roads , being owned by stockholders at home , and being in favor with the government , are allowed by law to charge a fairly high rate , 2 cents for third - class ; while our roads , owned usually by residents of other states ...
... British roads , being owned by stockholders at home , and being in favor with the government , are allowed by law to charge a fairly high rate , 2 cents for third - class ; while our roads , owned usually by residents of other states ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abroad American anti-trust beet sugar benefit better Britain British buyers capital cause cent charges cheaper Chicago Commission common competition competitors consolidation consumers corporations cost Cuba demand desire dividends earnings England Europe excess exports factories farm farmers favor foreign franchise free trade freight rates gain Germany give gold Hadley high prices higher imports income increase industry Inter-State Commission interest J. P. Morgan labor land less lines loss lower prices machinery manufacturing materials miles monopolistic monopoly monopoly profits nation natural natural monopoly Northern Securities Company oleomargarine owners paid pooling present Professor profit protection protectionists public ownership rail railroad railway raise reason reduced roads sell shares shipped shippers sold steel stockholders supply tariff duty tariff reform tion trust United wages wealth York