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Now , if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power , this story never would have been written . Were it alone in these methods , public scorn would long ...
Now , if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power , this story never would have been written . Were it alone in these methods , public scorn would long ...
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Poor cutting practice strips the land of all pres- ent values without thought of the future . ... to put our ailing forest resource on the road to re- covery - more protection , more planting , less waste , better forest practices .
Poor cutting practice strips the land of all pres- ent values without thought of the future . ... to put our ailing forest resource on the road to re- covery - more protection , more planting , less waste , better forest practices .
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It has been freed , in part at least , from dishonorable competition brought about not only by overwork- ing and underpaying labor , but by destructive business practices . We have begun to develop new safeguards for small enterprises ...
It has been freed , in part at least , from dishonorable competition brought about not only by overwork- ing and underpaying labor , but by destructive business practices . We have begun to develop new safeguards for small enterprises ...
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Contents
I | 2 |
PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 7 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 13 |
Copyright | |
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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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