In Quest of ProsperityDistribution League, 1910 - 47 páginas |
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accumulation advance in price arise becomes a price Black Sea building cent profit circulation of money civilization Clashing Islands commodity market cost price creating debts deferred wages distribution of wealth dragon's teeth employ labor enormous escape factors of production failure favorable locations fifty thousand dollars golden fleece hatred held back heroes heroism higher prices human individual industries Jason labor to produce land of Colchis land of Plunder lands advancing limited loaned loss to labor Medea millions monopoly natural negro Negroid Nephele owner payable in cash payment perish Phineus prevent price of improvements price of land price of privileges price of property Procrustes progress prostitution rate of profit return of capital return to labor rich rise in price secure selling price succeeding crops supply taken theory Thessaly tion total price twenty-five per cent uniform value of land volume of money wages of labor
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Página 3 - horrors" are a cheap price to pay for rescue from the only alternative supposed, of a world of clerks and teachers, of coeducation and zoophily, of "consumers' leagues" and "associated charities," of industrialism unlimited, and feminism unabashed.
Página 4 - To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to road-building and tunnel-making, to foundries and stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers...
Página 4 - If now - and this is my idea - there were, instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow.
Página 4 - The military ideals of hardihood and discipline would be wrought into the growing fiber of the people; no one would remain blind as the luxurious classes are now blind, to man's real relations to the globe he lives on, and to the permanently sour and hard foundations of his higher life.
Página 40 - It is the difference between the cost price and the selling price of merchandise. What is the purpose of marking up merchandise? To secure a profit. Take this case from a boys' furnishings department of a department store.
Página 6 - Procrustes has an iron bed in which travellers are tied who fall into his hands. If they are shorter than the bed they are stretched to fit and if they are longer a part is lopped off.