Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Copper buck...
...Charles R. Cowley of Brooklyn was the builder of the launch. The dimensions are as follows: Length, 45 feet, beam 7 feet, draft 30 inches aft, 18 inches for ward, cockpit for and aft, accommodation for from fifteen to twenty passengers. The hull is made of white cedar planking, copper fastened throughout, but the keel, frames and waining are made of white oak. The decks are of white pine. The boiler is of sectional steel pipe tested to four hundred pounds hydraulic pressure. The engine can develope fifty horse power at six hundred revolutions. A speed of six teen miles...
...Trusts and combinations are an economic evil. (a) They destroy competition, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company. (b) They often limit and suppress production. (c) By control of the market they can raise prices the Copper Syndicate. (d) They tend to build up monopolies and drive small capitalists out of business.- Quarterly Journal of Economics. Jan. 1889. New York State Leg. Report...
...society offers a high grade of work in copper-plate engraving and printing. The present arrangement ensures promptness at low prices, as both the engraving and the plate printing are given directly to artisans (not stationers) who are specialists...
...society offers a high grade of work in copper-plate engraving and printing. The present arrangement ensures promptness at low prices, as both the engraving and the plate printing are given directly to artisans (not stationers) who are specialists...