Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Court, that it is needed is proved by history, for no individual can cope with these corporations, no single state can control interstate traffic. The most dangerous abuses of the present are unjust discriminations against products, localities, and individuals particularly secret rates. Railroad discriminations nursed into power the Standard Oil Company. The Inter-State Commerce Law aimed to check these-evils, but did not claim to obviate all difficulties, and it is commonly acknowledged that legislation is necessary to enforce this law, in order that certain abuses may be overcome, that embarrassments caused by recent technical decisions of the courts...
...Banjo Club played at the dinner of the Paint and Oil Club at Young's on Saturday...
...Oil paintings of Nicholas Sever and Sarah Warren Sever, his wife, have been placed in the hallway of Sever...
...great many men who use the reading rooms in the Library are greatly annoyed by the continual creaking of the doors as they open and shut every time a person enters the room. A little oil would probably remedy the matter if the nuisance were brought to the notice of the proper authorities...
...Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 48.- (c) Waste of capital in useless roads, e. g. "Nickel Plate," West Shore, Chi. St. Paul and Kansas City, etc.; Bradstreets April 25, 1885.- (d) Monopolies have been fostered by unjust personal and local discrimination; Interstate Com. Com. rep. I, 503; Standard oil case.- (c). Effect of railway corporations on politics, case of Boston and Me. and Concord railways in New Hampshire...