 | 1915 - 936 psl.
...Atlantic States. We can roughly visualize the combined effect of the canal and higher rail rates if we set up a new measuring unit in the shape of the number of cents which it takes to carry a ton of staple goods at present rates. Using that measuring rod and taking... | |
 | DeWitt Wallace, Lila Acheson Wallace - 1926 - 678 psl.
...further realignment of the economic relationship of the country since the war. Using as a measuring rod the number of cents that it takes to move a ton of a staple commodity, and taking the cheapest route, we find that before the war New York was 1904 cents... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1927 - 818 psl.
...Pacific seaboards and their back country economically much closer together. Using as a measuring rod the number of cents that it takes to move a ton of a staple commodity, and taking in every case the cheapest route, we find that before the war New York... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1928 - 356 psl.
...brought the coasts relatively closer together at the same time that increased rail rates, figurately speaking, have moved the mid-west farther from seaboard....measuring rod it can be stated that for a certain manufacture these postwar influences have moved Chicago 336 cents away from the Pacific coast, while... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1928 - 444 psl.
...the coasts relatively closer together at the same time that Increased rail rates, figurately shaking, have moved the mid-west farther from seaboard. This...measuring rod it can be stated that for a certain manufacture these postwar influences have moved Chicago .'J3G cents away from the Pacific coast, while... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1928 - 274 psl.
...Atlantic States. We can roughly visualize the combined effect of the canal and higher rail rates if we set up a new measuring unit in the shape of the number of cents which it takes to carry a ton of staple goods at present rates. Using that measuring rod and taking... | |
 | Boulder Dam Muscle Shouls - 1928 - 220 psl.
...Atlantic States. We can roughly visualize the combined effect of the canal and higher rail rates if we set up a new measuring unit in the shape of the number of cents which it takes to carry a ton of staple goods at present rates. Using that measuring rod and taking... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1929 - 936 psl.
...seaboards and thteir back country economically much closer. We can roughly visualize that if we set up a new measuring unit in the shape of the number of cents which It takes to carry a ton of staple goods at present rates. Using that measuring r»i and taking... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1929 - 918 psl.
...seaboards and tMeir back country economically much closer. We can roughly visualize tli;ir if we set up a new measuring unit in the shape of the number of cents whirh it takes to carry a ton of staple goods at present rates. Using that measuring rod and taking... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1930 - 386 psl.
...the mid-West farther from seaboard. This situation has been expressed graphically by setting up a cew measuring unit in the shape of the number of cents...measuring rod. it can be stated that for a certain manufacture these postwar influences have moved Chicago 336 cents away from the Pacific coast, while... | |
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Cheapened water transportation has brought the coasts relatively closer together at the same time that increased rail rates, figurately speaking, have moved the mid-west farther from seaboard. This situation has been expressed graphically by setting up... 
