Word: rails
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly every day come reports of strikes, or threats of strikes, from rail-roads, mines, and munition factories, menacing a suspension of those great activities which would spell ruin to the country. The problem thus created is unusually complex; with the rates of transportation or coal production lowered and limited, an increase of wages and a shorter working day in many cases cannot be given. On the other hand, any walk out of the strikers would tie up our whole industrial organization, and make difficult or well-nigh impossible the exportations to our allies at the present hour...
...German colonies in southern Brazil, it has recently been estimated by impartial investigators that the Teutonic population is between 250,000 and 300,000, on the face of it an ominous figure. But the fact that the colonies have no access to the outside world except by rail-roads controlled by French and English capital goes far towards nullifying the danger. Add to this the fact that the Germans are surrounded by Italian settlements (the total number of Italians in Brazil being about 1,000,000), and the German peril has vanished...
...When we first came to this region the French had barely began their preparations. There were no reserve trenches worthy of the name, practically no rail communications within 15 miles of the front, no guns or ammunition to speak of. Then there were unfolded before us the methods of a great army preparing for a great offensive. Five miles back of the lines there was made a wonderfully constructed set of reserve trenches, protected by far-reaching mazes of barbed wire. Still farther back was a repetition of this first reserve set, not so complete in detail, but still ready...
...discussion of sugar production, and of the domestic cane and beet resources. The sugar refining industry is next taken up, and finally is considered the Sugar Trust. Iron and steel come next, and successive chapters on this industry deal with the general progress of the industries, with the steel rail situation, tin plate, imports and exports in general, and with the influence of the United States Steel Corporation. The concluding chapters of the volume take up the textile industries, silks, cottons, and woolens. As an introduction to the consideration of the last-named, there is a chapter...
Everyone admits that the system of Concentration and Distribution has its faults. Some, especially members of the class of 1914 who entered when it was a deep mystery to all but a chosen few rail against it as so much ineffectual red tape...