Pamphlets on Forest Economics, Volume 41915 - Economics |
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Page 105
... trade but using the land , the consumer whose food is to be curtailed in production and then subjected to speculators who can hold it without tax- these have no alternative . Single tax says to the little investor as well as to the big ...
... trade but using the land , the consumer whose food is to be curtailed in production and then subjected to speculators who can hold it without tax- these have no alternative . Single tax says to the little investor as well as to the big ...
Page 118
... trade of the money , machinery and trans- portation facilities . No matter how much land and muscle you may have , without the co - operation of capital you cannot profitably produce . It is an easy matter to obtain the use of land ...
... trade of the money , machinery and trans- portation facilities . No matter how much land and muscle you may have , without the co - operation of capital you cannot profitably produce . It is an easy matter to obtain the use of land ...
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... trade promotion work of the Department of Commerce , involving an annual appropriation of about $ 3,000,000 , was returned more than sixty - fold during the fiscal year 1925-26 by the new foreign business secured for individual Ameri ...
... trade promotion work of the Department of Commerce , involving an annual appropriation of about $ 3,000,000 , was returned more than sixty - fold during the fiscal year 1925-26 by the new foreign business secured for individual Ameri ...
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... trade us out of our liberties . As one lone illustration : There are on the Federal statute books 5000 laws with penalties governing railroads . On the statute books of the states there are 200,000 other rail- road laws , regulating and ...
... trade us out of our liberties . As one lone illustration : There are on the Federal statute books 5000 laws with penalties governing railroads . On the statute books of the states there are 200,000 other rail- road laws , regulating and ...
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... trade . These two eyes are the appraiser and the accountant . The appraiser's services are indispensable in ascertaining inventory values , while those of the accountant are equally necessary in interpreting books of account or the ...
... trade . These two eyes are the appraiser and the accountant . The appraiser's services are indispensable in ascertaining inventory values , while those of the accountant are equally necessary in interpreting books of account or the ...
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Page 6 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 32 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 66 - BROWN (J. Croumbie), LL.D. Reboisement in France; or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with Trees, Herbage, and Bush. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price I2s.
Page 137 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.
Page 137 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 4 - But the value of property results from the use to which it is put, and varies with the profitableness of that use, present and prospective, actual and anticipated. There is no pecuniary value outside of that which results from such use.
Page 91 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Page 33 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 54 - Plaisia, which disappeared during the entire time that the mountain remained cleared of its forests (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth), and reappeared 30 years ago, when the work of reforesting the slope had been finished.