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From: fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Supposed monopolies: the railroads (article 3 of 4)
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:38:33 EDT
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Regarding Charley Wingate's conjecture that the railroads were
monopolistic way back when, I merely note that they had the benefit
of federal land grants and subsidies.  

--Barry
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Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley