An Investor's Notes on American RailroadsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 - 172 páginas |
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... railroad must be taken to have relied on as an equivalent for extraordinary risks - was allowed to enure in its integrity to the benefit of the constructing companies . No legislation was proposed tending to re- duce the earning power ...
... railroad must be taken to have relied on as an equivalent for extraordinary risks - was allowed to enure in its integrity to the benefit of the constructing companies . No legislation was proposed tending to re- duce the earning power ...
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... railroad companies and their various degrees of merit or demerit . He hears experts say that it is dangerous to touch this or that stock , because it is " controlled by A. or by B's crowd , and you never quite know where you are . " Or ...
... railroad companies and their various degrees of merit or demerit . He hears experts say that it is dangerous to touch this or that stock , because it is " controlled by A. or by B's crowd , and you never quite know where you are . " Or ...
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... railroad worth more than its fund- ed debt , the excess of value was the stockholder's profit . If success stopped somewhat short of this , he disposed of contracts to intermediary construction companies , and stood in with them . But ...
... railroad worth more than its fund- ed debt , the excess of value was the stockholder's profit . If success stopped somewhat short of this , he disposed of contracts to intermediary construction companies , and stood in with them . But ...
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... railroad administration on the other . It is , in the writer's opinion , a ... railroad administrator doubt that a better and cheaper service would to - day be at ... companies is towards a lower , not a higher , level ; and that , as a ...
... railroad administration on the other . It is , in the writer's opinion , a ... railroad administrator doubt that a better and cheaper service would to - day be at ... companies is towards a lower , not a higher , level ; and that , as a ...
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... Rail- road Commissioners ; the tendency of the people to re- gard railroad charters as benefits conferred on construct- ing companies , rather than as unfortunate bargains on the part of the grantees ; and the tendency of the courts to ...
... Rail- road Commissioners ; the tendency of the people to re- gard railroad charters as benefits conferred on construct- ing companies , rather than as unfortunate bargains on the part of the grantees ; and the tendency of the courts to ...
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