The Technical World Magazine, Volume 15Technical World Company, 1911 |
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... American a few tons of dynamite and a mountain to bore through in a month and he is happy , " said an efficiency engineer to me the other day . " Ameri- cans love to do big things in a great hurry . They despise small things . A ...
... American a few tons of dynamite and a mountain to bore through in a month and he is happy , " said an efficiency engineer to me the other day . " Ameri- cans love to do big things in a great hurry . They despise small things . A ...
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... American plants , " said Harrington Emerson , who since leaving the Santa Fé has been working to reduce cost and improve labor conditions in several in- dustrial concerns . " It is the cumulative effect of small inefficiencies on an end ...
... American plants , " said Harrington Emerson , who since leaving the Santa Fé has been working to reduce cost and improve labor conditions in several in- dustrial concerns . " It is the cumulative effect of small inefficiencies on an end ...
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... American people would seem to be holding their own nobly . But these statistics present only half a truth which , like other half truths , is misleading . In 1904 the expenditures on public highways aggregated $ 79,000 , - 000 , while ...
... American people would seem to be holding their own nobly . But these statistics present only half a truth which , like other half truths , is misleading . In 1904 the expenditures on public highways aggregated $ 79,000 , - 000 , while ...
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... American roads waste money is in the unnecessary amount of ground they occupy . The average highway here is four rods , or sixty - six feet wide . In the middle West- ern States much of the ground given up to highways is worth a hundred ...
... American roads waste money is in the unnecessary amount of ground they occupy . The average highway here is four rods , or sixty - six feet wide . In the middle West- ern States much of the ground given up to highways is worth a hundred ...
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... American Highway League , which held a convention at Chicago last May . Membership in this League is limited to representatives of State highway de- partments . Its purposes are to provide a means of effective co - operation be- tween ...
... American Highway League , which held a convention at Chicago last May . Membership in this League is limited to representatives of State highway de- partments . Its purposes are to provide a means of effective co - operation be- tween ...
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