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We find that large numbers of laborers were working for twelve and a half cents an hour , twelve hours a day ... The rates paid for over - time work and Sunday work alike did not differ by one cent from the ordinary hourly rates .
We find that large numbers of laborers were working for twelve and a half cents an hour , twelve hours a day ... The rates paid for over - time work and Sunday work alike did not differ by one cent from the ordinary hourly rates .
Page 304
But in the very next year the percentage shot up to 13.4 per cent . , in the next year to 7.1 per cent . , and in 1905-1906 it was 11.1 per cent .; and in the nine years from 1898 to 1907 the average percentage of packages infested was ...
But in the very next year the percentage shot up to 13.4 per cent . , in the next year to 7.1 per cent . , and in 1905-1906 it was 11.1 per cent .; and in the nine years from 1898 to 1907 the average percentage of packages infested was ...
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New York , and mailed seventy - five thousand circulars in one batch asking for subscriptions to an oil land enterprise , promising returns of four per cent . a month . The circulars had not been dumped into the mail boxes more than an ...
New York , and mailed seventy - five thousand circulars in one batch asking for subscriptions to an oil land enterprise , promising returns of four per cent . a month . The circulars had not been dumped into the mail boxes more than an ...
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