Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...board of editors assumed control of the Yale News Monday...
...Subsidies are advantageous to the development of our carrying trade. (a) They will enlarge our marine and increase our naval power-Curtis p. 234; North American Review 148, pp. 95, 695; (b) lead to control of commercial routes; (c) improve our foreign mail service-Curtis p. 290; (d) add to our banking facilities and the extension of credit-Curtis p. 108; House report No. 18, 41st Congress, 3rd session; Public Opinion...
Last evening in Sever 11, under the suspices of the Finance club, Mr. Edwin H. Abbot of Minwaukee, delivered an address on "Stocks and Bonds in Railroad Organization and Control...
...that they should be conducted on economic principles. Mr. Abbot denied the justice of universal suffrage as applied to voting of stockholders and deprecated the prevailing tactics, thoroughly gambling tactics, of foroing up the price of shares of railroads in order to buy up the votes which represent the control of the railroads. As an example of this scheming, Mr. Abbot instanced the great Oregon Trans-continental fight of last...
...conclusion Mr. Abbot spoke of the Wisconsin Central scheme as a model one and expressed his approbation of a responsible standing committee as the governing power of a railroad corporatlon. With such a governing power, it would be impossible for a few men either rapidly to assume control of a road or to wreck...