Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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Everything depends upon the progressiveness of the management of the monopoly. Under a monopoly, all eggs are placed in a single basket, so far as the monopolized industry is concerned. Here the railroad analogy breaks down completely. Even if every railroad had a monopoly in the territory which it serves, there would still be many railroad companies. The danger of unprogressive management throughout the railroad industry is, therefore, slight. But in industry, the danger of unintelligent and ineffective management, the besetting weakness of a long continued monopoly, is too great to allow one, except as a last resort, to look...
...first appeal of her "Chantecler", as indeed it was of Rostand's, is to the eye and to the sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits in the woods, the parade of cocks at the guinea hen's reception...