Excerpt from Hearings Held Before the Special Committee on the Investigation of the American Sugar Refining Co: Wednesday, June 14, 1911 Mr. Heike. You spoke yesterday of 17 companies, but one came in a little later, about Six months later, and that made 18. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.