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Some Evidence of Subsidization: the U.S. Trucking Industry, 1900–1920
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2010
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This paper is concerned with the rapid growth of the trucking industry during the period 1900 to 1920. Our purpose is to examine the frequently asserted proposition that motor trucking was able to grow rapidly in competition with a well-established railroad industry because of the hidden subsidy provided by public expenditures on highways. Though this is a popularly held notion there has been little empirical evidence presented to support or refute it.
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