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Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon - Page 120
by Forrest McDonald - 2004 - 400 pages
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The Arena, Volume 38

United States - 1907 - 794 pages
...municipal-ownership as a political panacea. "To sum up, certain of the more important of our conculsions are: "First — Public utilities, whether in public or...Municipalities should have power to enter the field of municipalownership upon popular vote under reasonable regulation. " Sixth — Private companies operating...
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Charities and the Commons: A Weekly Journal of ..., Volume 15; Volume 18

Charities - 1907 - 904 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. "Franchise grants to private corporations should be...and meanwhile subject to purchase at a fair value. "Municipalities should have the power to enter the field of municipal ownership upon popular vote under...
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Pacific Municipalities, Volumes 17-18

1907 - 362 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. "Franchise grants to private corporations should be...and meanwhile subject to purchase at a fair value. "Municipalities should have power to enter the field of municipal ownership upon popular vote under...
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Gateway, Volumes 9-10

1907 - 648 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. Franchise grants to private corporations should be terminable after a fixed period, and meanwhile object to purchase at a fair value. Municipalities should have the power to enter the field of municipal...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 23

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1909 - 762 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. 4. Franchise grants to private corporations should be terminable after a fixed period, and meanwhile should be subject to purchase at a fair value. 5. Municipalities should have power to enter the field...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 23

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1909 - 822 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. 4. Franchise grants to private corporations should be terminable after a fixed period, and meanwhile should be subject to purchase at a fair value. 5. Municipalities should have power to enter the field...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and ..., Volumes 61-62

1911 - 918 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. "Franchise grants to private corporations should be...and meanwhile subject to purchase at a fair value. "Municipalities should have the power to enter the field of municipal ownership upon popular vote under...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific ..., Volume 62

Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1911 - 450 pages
...depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. "Franchise gjants to private corporations should be terminable after...and meanwhile subject to purchase at a fair value. "Municipalities should have the power to enter the field of municipal ownership upon popular vote under...
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Democratic England

Percy Alden - England - 1912 - 308 pages
...public utilities depends upon the existence in the city of a high capacity for municipal government. "Franchise grants to private corporations should be...and meanwhile subject to purchase at a fair value. "Municipalities should have the power to enter the field of municipal ownership upon popular vote under...
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Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 ...

Engineering - 1916 - 576 pages
..."some of the more important" of its conclusions: "First — Public utilities, whether in public or private hands, are best conducted under a system of...power to enter the field of municipal ownership upon a popular vote under reasonable regulation. Sixth — Private companies operating public utilities...
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