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Your committee present the following sum- mary of cost of this road to the railroad company and to the contractors , as appears by the books : Cost to Railroad Company Hoxie contract Ames contract $ 12,974,416 24 57,140,102 94 Davis ...
Your committee present the following sum- mary of cost of this road to the railroad company and to the contractors , as appears by the books : Cost to Railroad Company Hoxie contract Ames contract $ 12,974,416 24 57,140,102 94 Davis ...
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Through Pullman's personal efforts , or- ders were obtained in a keenly competitive market , and , with the aid of lower labor costs , production was gradually raised to the normal level . The company insisted that these new orders were ...
Through Pullman's personal efforts , or- ders were obtained in a keenly competitive market , and , with the aid of lower labor costs , production was gradually raised to the normal level . The company insisted that these new orders were ...
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small margin above operating costs ; that labor represents 50 to 60 per cent . of these costs ; that a slaughterhouse operator paying lower wages or reducing his cost by exacting long hours of work , translates his saving into lower ...
small margin above operating costs ; that labor represents 50 to 60 per cent . of these costs ; that a slaughterhouse operator paying lower wages or reducing his cost by exacting long hours of work , translates his saving into lower ...
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Contents
I | 2 |
PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 7 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 13 |
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| Title | Select Problems in Historical Interpretation: Government and the American economy, 1870-present Volume 2 of Select Problems in Historical Interpretation, David Morris Potter |
| Authors | David Morris Potter, Thomas G. Manning |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Dec 2006 |
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