Word: rates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references: J. F. Hudson, Bradstreet's, Dec. 15, 1888, 798-799. Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, Boston Transcript, Jan. 9, 1889. "Rate Wars and Pools," Bradstreet's, December...
...state of railroad affairs is due, not to the interstate Commerce Act, but to the lack of good faith among railroad officials.- C. F. Adams, Boston Globe, Dec. 16; Cooley, as above; Bradstreet's, Dec. 8, opinions of Sterne, Stone, and others; Dec. 15, J. F. Hudson; Dec. 22, "Rate Wars and Pools...
...Ruinous rate wars have not been as frequent as before the act was passed.- J. F. Hundson, as above; "Rate Wars and Pools," as above...
...Pooling is an evil. (a) It leads to the maintenance of poorer roads at the expense of the good roads, and to the building of unnecessary roads.- President E. P. Alexander, Scribner's, Jan. 1889, 41; "Rate Wars and Pools," as above; C. F. Adams, as above. (b) It gives a few men arbitrary power over the interests of the country. Hadley, Railroad Transportation...
...Pooling cannot maintain rates.- Hudson, The Railways and the Republic. 206-208; "Rate Wars and Pools," as above...