Word: controllers
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Nearly all the difficulties we have to deal with in regard to interstate commerce arise from the laws which now control business. The Interstate Commerce Law of 1870 is a successful attempt to control interstate commerce by regulation: the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, on the other hand, is an attempt to control interstate commerce by preventing combinations in restraint of trade, and up to the present time it has not been successful. The United States under the law can control the agent but cannot control the interstate commerce that the agent engages in, the latter being under state...
...river, must now secure the agreement of the House to the substitution of the Dana bill for the amended McCall bill, which was passed after the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce had reported it. This bill placed the Charles River under the law giving the War Department control over structures built across navigable streams...
...from the state banks. A loan of fifty million dollars was raised, which was of great aid to the government and served to bring the union bankers more closely together. Shortly afterward, when several increases of this loan had been made, a permanent system of national banks, under federal control, was established by the National Currency Act of 1863. The success of this measure was largely due to Mr. McCulloch, then Comptroller of the Currency. Secretary Chase at first disapproved. In 1864 the bill that is in effect today was enacted, and 700 national banks were organized. The state institutions...
...debt of Europe is 26 billion dollars, and it is controlled by a body of bondholders that make up an invisible empire. In England the Rothschilds compose this empire. During the wars they bought as many bonds as possible and in this way made themselves controllers of England's war debt. In other countries there are bondholders who control the debt in the same way. The interest on the war debt of Europe amounts to one and a fifth billion dollars and this falls on the taxpayers. We see the effects of this upon the poverty stricken country people...
...society are considerably larger than last year, extensive plans are being made. A permanent hangar, which will hold two machines, and an artificial slope will be built at Squantum, where most of the experimental work will be carried on. The society's glider will be equipped with effective controls so that it can be used for free flights from an elevation. It is also planned to remodel the Roe triplane and to use in this the 30 horsepower engine which Mr. Roe used at the Squantum meet. If enough money is available, a different system of control will be placed...