ELKINS ACT

  

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ELKINS ACT

Specialty Definition: ELKINS ACT

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Shipping

An act of Congress (1903) prohibiting rebates, concession, misbilling, etc. and providing specific penalties for such violations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Elkins Act

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Elkins Act of 1903 strengthened the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by forbidding rebates to shippers. Railroads were not permitted to deviate from published rates. The law was sponsored by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Elkins Act."

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Anagrams: ELKINS ACT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-k-l-n-s-t"

-1 letter: lankiest.

-2 letters: acetins, alkines, anklets, anticks, antlike, cakiest, calkins, cantles, catkins, catlike, catlins, centals, cineast, clients, elastic, elastin, entails, inlaces, intakes, laciest, lakiest, lancets, lankest, latices, lectins, lentisk, nailset, nickels, nickles, saclike, salient, saltine, sanicle, scaleni, slacken, slainte, stencil, stickle, tackles, talkies, tenails, tickles, tincals, tinkles.

-3 letters: acetin, actins, aliens, alines, alkies, alkine.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-k-l-n-s-t"
 

+2 letters: candlestick, stickhandle.

 

+3 letters: candlesticks, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles.

 

+4 letters: anticlockwise, craftsmanlike, kleptomaniacs, stickhandlers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ELKINS ACT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4C 4B 49 4E 53      41 43 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001100 01001011 01001001 01001110 01010011 00100000 01000001 01000011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#32 &#65 &#67 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 004B 0049 004E 0053      0041 0043 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3946454348532353754

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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