Elements of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions, for the Use of High SchoolsThis book contains information meant to enable high school students to understand the essential characteristics of material wealth and its importance as a means to welfare. |
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Page 196 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 332 - Why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?
Page 36 - Whether an income between $800 and $900 can be made to suffice is a question to which our data do not warrant a dogmatic answer.
Page 302 - all of those services meanms. which an employer may render to his work people over and above the payment of wages." Employers have always done some welfare work, but until recently such efforts were practically unknown to the general public. With the advent of the National Cash Register Company, however, and its attempts to provide abundantly for the outside wants of its employees, attention was An example.
Page 174 - To have succession by its corporate name, for the period limited in its charter ; and when no period is limited, perpetually : 2.
Page 177 - ... it to be determined by the light of reason, guided by the principles of law and the duty to apply and enforce the public policy embodied in the statute, in every given case whether any particular act or contract was within the contemplation of the statute.
Page 103 - Entering the workroom with adults of all types of morality and immorality, the child ceases to be a child in knowledge while it is still a child in ideas. There is no home influence or school influence to ward off the dangers, no mother or teacher to point out the hidden rocks.
Page 61 - ... earliest attack was upon the white pine of the Northeast, the original stand of which is almost entirely cut out. The present stand in the Northeastern States is mainly spruce, second-growth white pine, hemlock, and hardwoods. The Southern States produce essentially four types of forest, which may broadly be said to divide the land among them according to elevation above sea level. The swamp forests of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the bottom lands of the rivers furnish cypress and hardwoods....