The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, Land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange ...Hyperion Press, 1975 - 479 pages |
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... commerce . Stretching away from them , and binding them together with iron bands , are the steel roads of transportation , extending from Boston and New York to San Francisco and Portland , diverging and converging , throwing out ...
... commerce . Stretching away from them , and binding them together with iron bands , are the steel roads of transportation , extending from Boston and New York to San Francisco and Portland , diverging and converging , throwing out ...
Page 97
... commerce on every hand , just as undue taxes and overcharges now do . Commerce proper was confined to the coast and navigable rivers , and even then its volume was limited , because the products of commerce could be drawn from and ...
... commerce on every hand , just as undue taxes and overcharges now do . Commerce proper was confined to the coast and navigable rivers , and even then its volume was limited , because the products of commerce could be drawn from and ...
Page 287
... commerce between the States . Congress was forced to act , and the result was the Inter- State Commerce Act - an admirable act in some respects , and one that should be retained , but powerless to cor- rect and remedy to the full need ...
... commerce between the States . Congress was forced to act , and the result was the Inter- State Commerce Act - an admirable act in some respects , and one that should be retained , but powerless to cor- rect and remedy to the full need ...
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