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... CAR COMPANY In 1867 George Mortimer Pullman , inventor and industrialist , began the mass production of those railroad cars with which his name may forever be associated . In the following years his enterprise , organized as Pullman's ...
... CAR COMPANY In 1867 George Mortimer Pullman , inventor and industrialist , began the mass production of those railroad cars with which his name may forever be associated . In the following years his enterprise , organized as Pullman's ...
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... cars . I had the estimate made upon those cars carefully figured and had explained to me the cost of labor and material , and I authorized the manager to put in his bid at $ 10 a car below the actual cost of building , making up my mind ...
... cars . I had the estimate made upon those cars carefully figured and had explained to me the cost of labor and material , and I authorized the manager to put in his bid at $ 10 a car below the actual cost of building , making up my mind ...
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... cars . Commissioner KERNAN . Were those cars so upset that they obstructed and prevented traf- fic ? —Ans . Yes , temporarily ; but it did not take them more that fifteen or twenty minutes to right the cars when they got at it ...
... cars . Commissioner KERNAN . Were those cars so upset that they obstructed and prevented traf- fic ? —Ans . Yes , temporarily ; but it did not take them more that fifteen or twenty minutes to right the cars when they got at it ...
Contents
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PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 4 |
Andrew Carnegie and the Accumula | 10 |
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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, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 May 2009 |
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