Journal Article The Nebraska Deposit Guaranty Fund Get access Thornton Cooke Thornton Cooke Columbia National Bank, Kansas City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 36, Issue 1, November 1921, Pages 162–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883785 Published: 01 November 1921
I. Conditions on the Continent, 103. — In Great Britain: technical advance, 106. — Overhead charges, 113. — Labor conditions, 114. — II. American experience: overexpansion of productive capacity and increase in disadvantageous lines, 118. — Conditions of technical equipment, 120. — Wage conditions, 126. — Standardization of products, 128. — Industrial organization, 129. — Possible improvement in competitive strength of American industry: through technical advance, 130. — Through control of wages, 133. — Through increased standardization, 134. — Conclusion, 135.
I. Characteristics of this period, 30. — II. Labor policies. The national agreements, 35. — Extreme standardization of wages, 36. — Centralization in dealing with disputes and impairment of discipline, 39. — III. Relations with state commissions, 41. — Rate adjustments, 43. — Policy toward further advances in rates, 45. — Final refusal to make advances, 45. — IV. Upkeep of physical property. Provisions of the Control Act, 47. — Financial figures indicate adequate maintenance, figures in terms of physical units do not, 50. — The case of freight cars, 51. — V. Additions and betterments, 54. — VI. Financial result of the entire period of federal control, 57. — VII. How far the Administration policy of unification has proved permanent, 61. — VIII. Conclusion, 67.
Journal Article Philadelphia and the Embargo of 1808 Get access Louis Martin Sears Louis Martin Sears Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 35, Issue 2, February 1921, Pages 354–359, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883892 Published: 01 February 1921
Journal Article Promotion from without Get access Anna Bezanson Anna Bezanson University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 36, Issue 1, November 1921, Pages 154–161, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883784 Published: 01 November 1921
Events preceding federal control, 290. — Decline in net income, 291. — Roads unprepared for the traffic of 1915, 293. — Voluntary unification through Railroads' War Board, 293. — Results not satisfactory, 297. — Railroads taken by the government, 300. — Reasons for federal control, 301. — Organization under federal control, 303. — Contract between Director General and railroad companies, 306. — The first period: unification and standardization, 309. — Joint use of terminals and other facilities, 310. — Utilization of motive power, 313. — Joint use of freight cars, 313. — Freight in solid train lots, 314. — Disregard of shippers' designation of routes, 314. — Diversion of exports to southern ports, 315. — Consolidation of ticket offices, 315. — Standardization of locomotives and cars, 316. — Simplification of accounting, 319. — Standardization of operating statistics, 321. — Reductions in passenger train service, 323. — "Sailing day plan" for less than car load freight, 326. — Abolition of "off-line" freight agencies, 327. — Increases in rates, 327. — Adjustment of complaints, 329. — Uniform classification, 329. — Labor problems and wage increases, 330. — Extent of freight congestion in December, 1917, 332. — Movement of foodstuffs for export, 332. — Bituminous coal situation, 333. — Movement of troops, 334. — Volume of tonnage moved in 1918, 335. — Operating results and operating efficiency; statistics, 336. — Financial results, 338.
The reciprocity agreement of 1911, 574. — Its rejection by Canada, 578. — Reciprocity and the Underwood tariff, 582. — Canadian tariff amendments, 1911–20, 582. — The trade between the two countries, 1910–20, 585. — The present status of reciprocity in Canada, 588. — Conclusions, 591.
The Literature on the Sales Tax Get access K. M. Williamson K. M. Williamson Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 35, Issue 4, August 1921, Pages 618–633, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882429 Published: 01 August 1921
History of the investigation. Growth and position of the packing companies, 414. — The stockyards situation, 417. — Fluctuations in the price of live stock, 420. — The charge of combination, 421. — The Palmer-Packer agreement, 429.