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What inducements did the United States offer to the incorporators of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to build a transcontinental railroad ? 5. What did Representative Pruyn mean by the statement that " the Government in fact built ...
What inducements did the United States offer to the incorporators of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to build a transcontinental railroad ? 5. What did Representative Pruyn mean by the statement that " the Government in fact built ...
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providing assets much more valuable than those invested by private projectors , and it was possible to regard the builders either as enterprising capitalists whose object was to build and operate a transcontinental railroad and who ...
providing assets much more valuable than those invested by private projectors , and it was possible to regard the builders either as enterprising capitalists whose object was to build and operate a transcontinental railroad and who ...
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THE RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC - THE PROBLEM OF MONOPOLY AND DISCRIMINATION In the pioneer days of railroad building the American people were quick to see the economic advantages which rail transportation would provide and slow to realize ...
THE RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC - THE PROBLEM OF MONOPOLY AND DISCRIMINATION In the pioneer days of railroad building the American people were quick to see the economic advantages which rail transportation would provide and slow to realize ...
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Contents
I | 2 |
GOVERNMENT AND THE ECON | 3 |
Efforts at Arbitration | 4 |
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| Title | Government and the American economy, 1870-present Volume 2 of Select Problems in Historical Interpretation, Thomas G. Manning |
| Authors | David Morris Potter, Thomas G. Manning |
| Publisher | Holt, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 Mar 2017 |
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