Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside manufacturer. - Contractor gets (1) Rent, power, and privileges, - (2) Cheaper labor (see above...
...first that of a true university settlement. With eight or ten college men occupying rooms in the Prospect House the undertaking must gain greatly in influence and permanence. The rooms are large and pleasant, lighted by electricity and heated by steam. The rental compares favorably with that of the cheaper rooms in the college dormitories and the rooms may be occupied by two students. The Prospect House is only fifteen minutes walk from the college. It is not necessary that students rooming in the House should devote large amounts of time to the work. The moral effect of such...
...Boston Herald, Oct. 27, 1890; Schurz address, Boston Post, Oct. 21, 1890. 1. Tariff legislation has been almost entirely for the benefit of a few rich corporations; Butterworth's speech, Boston Herald, May 13, 1890; Wanamaker's advertisement in public papers during October. 2. Heaviest duties on the cheaper qualities of goods discriminate against the poor; Wells in Boston Post, July 8, 1890; Curtis' address before Senate Committee, Boston Post, June 6, 1890; Andrews' speech, Boston Herald, May 10, 1890; Cummings' speech, Cong, Record, May 10, 1890. d. As to Civil Service Reform; Republican platform; Report of National Reform League...
...progress of commerce and civilization in the United States demands better and cheaper facilities for the rapid transmission of intelligence. Grant's annual message...
...notes and chatted in a familiar way on various subjects connected with business-the falling off of the American carrying trade and the advisability of subsidizing, for unless American ships are subsidized, it is folly to suppose that a private citizen can build boats which will carry products cheaper than subsidized English or French ships...