Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remedies. Senator Gooding and Miner Lewis seemed agreed that the legislation required was amendment of the anti-trust laws to permit the operators to consolidate. Miner Lewis also asked an Interstate Commerce Act amendment to prevent railroads from crushing operators and miners alike, by coal price depression...
...Fargo & Co. During the War, the Government monopolized railroading and expressing. In 1918 a single new company, the American Railway Express Company, inherited from the Government a monopoly of the express-carrying business of the U. S. The three oldtime companies have valuable stock interests in this temporary express trust, which enormously increases the market value of their own shares. The holdings of Adams Express in American Railway Express stock were estimated last week at $10,904,300 of the total $34,642,000 capital...
Always he trades honestly, operates frugally. "You never see gulls following a Dollar ship," is one of his sayings. Another, "We have passed the day when swapping jack-knives was considered trade." Another, ". . . the Chinese trust me. I have never found a bad debt in China...
...wallowing in the sloughs of scholastic hebetude is in most cases a voice declaiming in the wilderness, because the multiplicity and complexity of college life has sent such a terrific avalanche of courses and activities down upon the normal student that he can only fight blindly ahead and trust to get through the best way he can. As long as chaos is the prevalent factor in educational circles it is safe to say that the student will be the victim. Along with the great mass of experiments tried upon him the average student would appreciate a simplification of education. Until...
Again, there is Hoover, the amateur in politics,--the ingenue among the curly wolves. It may be true that in 1920 Hoover was content to trust his preconvention campaign to as fine a group of mechanical engineers, prize orators, and textbook authors as were ever lost in a wilderness of politics. But that...