| Logan Grant McPherson - 1914 - 120 páginas
...political government. Such effort is of men who are immediately engaged in that activity which tends to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. With all their excellence of accomplishment it cannot be claimed that these industrial and commercial... | |
| 1914 - 658 páginas
...that have affected governmental development. The underlying effort if all industry and commerce is to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," or at least to see that "a new dollar is returned for the dollar that is expended." The political government... | |
| James Miller Guinn - 1915 - 498 páginas
...city's exchequer, which was chronically in a state of collapse, would expand and become plethoric. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is the secret of agricultural wealth. The olden-time city fathers well knew that neither the one blade... | |
| 1914 - 662 páginas
...that have affected governmental development. The underlying effort if all industry and commerce is to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," or at least to see that "a new dollar is returned for the dollar that is expended." The political government... | |
| New York (State). Governor (1915-1918 : Whitman) - 1916 - 1070 páginas
...increased by many millions. Every dollar devoted by the State to agriculture is an investment, not a gift. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is plain business. The State of New York is bringing to agriculture all that the scientist has discovered... | |
| American Railway Association. Special Committee on National Defense - 1917 - 104 páginas
...country win, shortly after a state of war was declared. While farmers of the Northwest were setting out to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, the railroads prepared to do their bit by making one freight car do the work of two. The railroads are... | |
| Charles Henry Morrill - 1918 - 250 páginas
...than one hundred thousand acres. To improve and develop new wild sections of the West, and to endeavor to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," was always an interesting and alluring work to me. The hardships of frontier life were tempered by... | |
| New York (State). Governor - 1919 - 952 páginas
...increased by many millions. Every dollar devoted by the State to agriculture is an investment, not a gift. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is plain business. The State of New York is bringing to agriculture all that the scientist has discovered... | |
| David Snedden - 1921 - 342 páginas
...sought to discover a new, or to improve an old, tool ; to add new knowledge to the social inheritance; to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before ; to heal the sick ; to reform the delinquent; to promote justice; or to educate the young. It can... | |
| Samuel Insull - 1924 - 496 páginas
...properties under my direction. I have spent my life in trying, so far as my business is concerned, to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. And when I se e an effort made, as in this state, to roll back the wheels of progress just to pander... | |
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