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One year after the organization of the steel trust , the price of steel rails was fixed at twenty - eight dollars a ton . Twenty - eight dollars a ton has been the price of steel rails ever since - in America .
One year after the organization of the steel trust , the price of steel rails was fixed at twenty - eight dollars a ton . Twenty - eight dollars a ton has been the price of steel rails ever since - in America .
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Another viewpoint : during the half century ending in 1908 , two billion , five hundred million dollars worth of gold was produced in the United States ; this gold was distributed among countless persons .
Another viewpoint : during the half century ending in 1908 , two billion , five hundred million dollars worth of gold was produced in the United States ; this gold was distributed among countless persons .
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Skilled workmen in Europe think themselves fortunate to be able to earn as much as six or seven dollars a week , while common laborers are doing well to earn three or four dollars a week . If one - fourth of these unproductive soldiers ...
Skilled workmen in Europe think themselves fortunate to be able to earn as much as six or seven dollars a week , while common laborers are doing well to earn three or four dollars a week . If one - fourth of these unproductive soldiers ...
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professional money lender is helpless to escape and how tragedy not infrequently follows the borrowing | 159 |
Making Charity | 251 |
made real financial successes alone in the cultivation of land and she points out some new ways | 299 |
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