Word: outdoes
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...greater cost of building and operating ships here than abroad. Moreover, by making the subsidy for each ship pro- portional to the amount of cargo which it carries, American vessels will be induced to carry as much as they can and as often as they can, and to outdo foreign rivals. A system such as this is analogous to the one which the United States employed in building up our internal carriage, when Congress gave $70,000,000 and 200,000 acres of public land to the railroads. We now have one of the most wonderful railroad systems...