Word: markets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...account of the various means of saving expense and of using to the best advantage the labor and capital employed, the combinations might sell their products below competitive rates. Experience, however, has shown that in most cases the larger organizations have secured sufficient control of the market to enable them to raise their prices, thus making consumers suffer for the benefit of stockholders. This has been the result of the organization of the American Sugar Refining Co., the Standard Oil Co., the American Tin Plate Co., and the American Steel and Wire...
...form of trust does not combine competition companies. The Federal Steel Company, for instance, bought up mines, manufactories dealing with the product in its various stages of refinement, and steamship and transportation companies. Such a system simply insures to the corporation a constant supply of raw material and a market for the finished product, but does not remove the healthful element of competition...
First as to posting the list of market prices. The vote mentioned was passed two years ago in the Foxcroft Club and was to be effective only for that year. Instead of the vote being "deliberately disregarded," the list was posted where all could examine it. The sufficient reason for not publishing the list this year is that only two men out of nine hundred have asked to have it published...
...Northampton, Mass., the seat of Smith College, prepared the following act with regard to college taxation which will be presented before the State Legislature today: "Be it enacted that the real estate of literary and scientific institutions, which are new exempt from taxation, be assessed at a fair market value, the payment of the tax to be made out of the treasury of the Commonwealth...
Question: "Resolved, That the product of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in open market." Principal Disputants.--Affirmative: H. W. Hahn, E. F. Mann, and W. M. Angle.--Negative: A. Black, A. King, and R. A. Dean...