Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 74A.L. Hummel, 1917 - Political science |
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... animal fodder can be readily imported , are meat - producing animals so abundant that they are of large importance as a food . Even in this latter case , the con- sumption is small compared to countries like Argentina or the United ...
... animal fodder can be readily imported , are meat - producing animals so abundant that they are of large importance as a food . Even in this latter case , the con- sumption is small compared to countries like Argentina or the United ...
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... ANIMAL FOOD . A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE POTATO CROP IS USED FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES . - DATA FROM G. K. HOLMES The Meat Situation in the United States . TABLE I VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS AND 2 THE ANNALS OF THE ...
... ANIMAL FOOD . A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE POTATO CROP IS USED FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES . - DATA FROM G. K. HOLMES The Meat Situation in the United States . TABLE I VALUE OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS AND 2 THE ANNALS OF THE ...
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... animal foods are of very much less importance than vegetables . The bulk of the world's food supply is produced in the coun- tries in which it is consumed . Large as is the international trade in food products , it represents but a ...
... animal foods are of very much less importance than vegetables . The bulk of the world's food supply is produced in the coun- tries in which it is consumed . Large as is the international trade in food products , it represents but a ...
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... animals , and with a small population to con- sume them , they are food exporting nations . In addition to the small ... animal food and enters world commerce only to a slight extent . Of the world production of 3,823 million bushels of ...
... animals , and with a small population to con- sume them , they are food exporting nations . In addition to the small ... animal food and enters world commerce only to a slight extent . Of the world production of 3,823 million bushels of ...
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... animals . In the years 1911-1913 , the United States produced 2,700,000,000 bushels of corn , against 3,800,000,000 bushels for the world production . This was over 71 per cent of the world crop . Most of this great yield was consumed ...
... animals . In the years 1911-1913 , the United States produced 2,700,000,000 bushels of corn , against 3,800,000,000 bushels for the world production . This was over 71 per cent of the world crop . Most of this great yield was consumed ...
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Page 71 - There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 258 - Contracts, combinations, or conspiracies to control domestic enterprise in manufacture, agriculture, mining production in all its forms, or to raise or lower prices or wages, might unquestionably tend to restrain external as well as domestic trade, but the restraint would be an indirect result, however inevitable and whatever its extent, and such result would not necessarily determine the object of the contract, combination, or conspiracy.
Page 264 - ... innkeepers, etc., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold. To this day, statutes are to be found in many of the States upon some or all these subjects ; and we think it has never yet been successfully contended that such legislation came within any of the constitutional prohibitions against interference with private property.
Page 262 - This power is, and must be from its very nature, incapable of any very exact definition or limitation. Upon it depends the security of social order, the life and health of the citizen, the comfort of an existence in u thickly populated community, the enjoyment of private and social life, and the beneficial use of property.
Page 266 - Is the business of insurance within the principle ? It would be a bold thing to say that the principle is fixed, inelastic, in the precedents of the past and cannot be applied though modern economic conditions may make necessary or beneficial its application.
Page 264 - In their exercise it has been customary in England from time immemorial, and in this country from its first colonization, to regulate ferries, common carriers, hackmen, bakers, millers, wharfingers, innkeepers, &c., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold.
Page 258 - It will be perceived how far-reaching the proposition is that the power of dealing with a monopoly directly may be exercised by the general government whenever interstate or international commerce may be ultimately affected.
Page 267 - Regulations respecting the pursuit of a lawful trade or business are of very frequent occurrence in the various cities of the country, and what such regulations shall be and to what particular trade, business or occupation they shall apply, are questions for the state to determine, and their determination comes within the proper exercise of the police Opinion Per MAIN, J.
Page 266 - The cases need no explanatory or fortifying comment. They demonstrate that a business, by circumstances and its nature, may rise from private to be of public concern, and be subject, in consequence, to governmental regulation.
Page 264 - Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens one towards another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.