Agricultural Inquiry: Hearings Before the Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session Under Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Agriculture |
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... distribution , systems of finance , systems of transporta- tion , and practically all systems which serve or pretend to serve the public have exacted enormous tolls from the farmers and have further increased these tolls to their ...
... distribution , systems of finance , systems of transporta- tion , and practically all systems which serve or pretend to serve the public have exacted enormous tolls from the farmers and have further increased these tolls to their ...
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... distribution , the special privileges granted the railroads , and the remedies which can be applied . The necessity for reestablishing our foreign markets for our exportable surplus should be added to the trinity of emergency topics ...
... distribution , the special privileges granted the railroads , and the remedies which can be applied . The necessity for reestablishing our foreign markets for our exportable surplus should be added to the trinity of emergency topics ...
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... distribution each way is over 60 cents on the dollar , and against this might be cited a cost of less than 10 cents in coopera- tive Denmark . We can not reduce distribution to 10 cents in America , but it might be reduced to 20 cents ...
... distribution each way is over 60 cents on the dollar , and against this might be cited a cost of less than 10 cents in coopera- tive Denmark . We can not reduce distribution to 10 cents in America , but it might be reduced to 20 cents ...
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... distribution of this sum would give the farmers more than $ 7,000,000,000 increase with but slight re- adjustment of the wages of labor . The capital of the farmer is just as sacred as the capital of the Steel Trust , the Oil Trust ...
... distribution of this sum would give the farmers more than $ 7,000,000,000 increase with but slight re- adjustment of the wages of labor . The capital of the farmer is just as sacred as the capital of the Steel Trust , the Oil Trust ...
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... distribution of these national - bank loans , and then I will answer that question , Mr. Funk . The total loans and discounts , including rediscounts of national banks , November 15 , 1920 , amounted to $ 13,764,000,000 . According to ...
... distribution of these national - bank loans , and then I will answer that question , Mr. Funk . The total loans and discounts , including rediscounts of national banks , November 15 , 1920 , amounted to $ 13,764,000,000 . According to ...
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