A Century of Industrial ProgressFrederic William Wile American Institute of the City of New York, 1928 - 581 halaman |
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Adolph Zukor advertising agricultural airship American asso associations automobile banks became building built capital cent century chemical chemical industry cities Civil commercial Company construction coöperation Corporation cost cotton cylinder early economic electric electrotype engine England equipment established exports Federal foreign forest Fourdrinier machine growth horsepower hundred important improved increased Institute interest invention iron Koster & Bial's labor land later light lines livestock locomotive machine machinery manufacture meat ment methods miles million mills modern motion picture motor museum newspapers operation organization output packers peep show period petroleum plants possible pounds printing problems production progress radio railroad raw materials result Roebuck and Co ships steam steam engine steel industry success supply telephone thousand tion to-day tons trade trade union transportation unions United Vitascope wire wood woodpulp workers York
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Halaman 273 - ... chartered or incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof, and principally engaged in international or foreign banking, or banking in a dependency or insular possession of the United States...
Halaman 447 - In a similar manner, it is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, or suspended overhead, communicating by branch wires with private dwellings, country houses, shops, manufactories, etc., etc., uniting them through the main cable with a central office where the wires could be connected as desired, establishing direct communication between any two places in the city.
Halaman 253 - The emitting of paper money by the authority of Government is wisely prohibited to the individual States by the national Constitution ; and the spirit of that prohibition ought not to be disregarded by the Government of the United States.
Halaman 273 - Any member bank may accept drafts or bills of exchange drawn upon it having not more than three months' sight to run, exclusive of days of grace, drawn under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System by banks or bankers in foreign countries or dependencies or insular possessions of the United States for the purpose of furnishing dollar exchange as required by the usages of trade in the respective countries, dependencies, or insular possessions.
Halaman 255 - What an obstruction could not this bank- of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war ? It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile...
Halaman 273 - To establish branches in foreign countries or dependencies or insular possessions of the United States for the furtherance of the foreign commerce of the United States, and to act if required to do so as fiscal agents of the United States.
Halaman 115 - In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
Halaman 536 - The whole problem is confined within these limits, viz. To make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air.
Halaman 197 - The object of this paper is to lay before the public, at a price within the means of every one, ALL THE NEWS OF THE DAY, and at the same time afford an advantageous medium for advertising.
Halaman 563 - man is a tool-using animal (Hanthierendes Thier). Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most, for the flattest-soled, of some half square-foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use tools, can devise tools. With these the...