The Business Man's Encyclopedia: A Hip-pocket Business Counsellor ...System Company, 1905 |
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Page 229
... measure . The standard unit for measurement of liquids adopt- ed by the U. S. custom house is the wine gallon , 231 ... measure is equal to one pound Troy weight . Wine , beer and dry measures , and all measures of volume , differ from ...
... measure . The standard unit for measurement of liquids adopt- ed by the U. S. custom house is the wine gallon , 231 ... measure is equal to one pound Troy weight . Wine , beer and dry measures , and all measures of volume , differ from ...
Page 230
A Hip-pocket Business Counsellor ... MISCELLANEOUS WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . A cylinder one foot in diameter and one ... measure in the United States . The only legal barrel of flour contains 196 pounds . 1 ton of chestnut lumber equals ...
A Hip-pocket Business Counsellor ... MISCELLANEOUS WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . A cylinder one foot in diameter and one ... measure in the United States . The only legal barrel of flour contains 196 pounds . 1 ton of chestnut lumber equals ...
Page 232
... MEASURE . This measure was formerly used in buying and sell- ing cloth , ribbons , etc. The standard yard and frac- tional parts thereof are now in general use in this country . 24 inches make .... 4 nails ( 9 inches ) make . 4 quarters ...
... MEASURE . This measure was formerly used in buying and sell- ing cloth , ribbons , etc. The standard yard and frac- tional parts thereof are now in general use in this country . 24 inches make .... 4 nails ( 9 inches ) make . 4 quarters ...
Page 233
... measuring latitude and longitude . 60 seconds make ..... 60 minutes make ... 30 degrees make . 360 degrees make . ..1 minute . ..1 degree . .1 sign . .1 circle . CUBIC OR SOLID MEASURE . Cubic measure is used for BUSINESS TABLES . 233.
... measuring latitude and longitude . 60 seconds make ..... 60 minutes make ... 30 degrees make . 360 degrees make . ..1 minute . ..1 degree . .1 sign . .1 circle . CUBIC OR SOLID MEASURE . Cubic measure is used for BUSINESS TABLES . 233.
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A Hip-pocket Business Counsellor ... CUBIC OR SOLID MEASURE . Cubic measure is used for measuring stone , timber , earth , capacity of rooms , ships , and such other things as have length , breadth and thickness . 1728 cubic inches make ...
A Hip-pocket Business Counsellor ... CUBIC OR SOLID MEASURE . Cubic measure is used for measuring stone , timber , earth , capacity of rooms , ships , and such other things as have length , breadth and thickness . 1728 cubic inches make ...
Common terms and phrases
12 per cent Actual citizens ad val advertising amount assets Avoirdupois begin with capital bond bushel buyer card Figure card system caret carton cent ad val cent divide cents equal Citizen or declared City Conn correspondence cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches days 30 days decimal point declared intent dividend dollar DRY MEASURE envelope filed folder gallons grace on sight grains indorsement inquiry Insert interest forfeited Iowa issued letters Line lumber equals mail order marked Mass MEASURE ments Metric System Minn mortgage multiply negotiable instruments ness number of days Ohio ounces paper payment Payt Places Having 5,000 point and add point two places pounds profits quotation record remove the decimal remove the point SIGNATURES success Tenn tion Troy Troy pound Troy weight United want card weight word
Popular passages
Page 242 - The first word of every sentence and the first word of every line of poetry should begin with a capital letter.
Page 263 - The rule for casting interest, when partial payments have been made, is to apply the payment, in the first place, to the discharge of the interest then due. If the payment exceeds the interest, the surplus goes toward discharging the principal, and the subsequent interest is to be computed on the balance of principal remaining due. If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus...
Page 263 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal; and interest is to be Computed on the balance, as aforesaid.
Page 276 - Greek, and deoi, centi, mili, from the Latin, are used in preference to our plain English, 10, 100, etc., it is best to employ capital letters for the multiples and small letters for the subdivisions, to avoid ambiguities in abbreviations: 1 dekametre or 10 metres = 1 Dm.; 1 decimetre or 1-10 of a metre = 1 dm.
Page 276 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in all legal proceedings as establishing in- terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States: the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Page 239 - The second-(central) section includes all the territory between the last named line and an irregular line from Bismarck, ND, to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The third (mountain) section includes all territory between the last-named line and nearly the western borders of Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.
Page 276 - METRE, unit of length, is nearly the ten-millionth part of a quadrant of a meridian, of the distance between Equator and Pole. The International Standard Metre is, practically, nothing else but a length defined by the distance between two lines on a platinum-fridium bar at CK> Centigrade, deposited at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Paris, France.
Page 270 - DISCOUNT. DISCOUNT is an allowance made for the payment of money before it is due. The present worth of a debt payable at some future time, without interest, is such a sum of money as will, if put at interest for the given time, amount to the debt.
Page 243 - II at the close, as mill, sell. All words of one syllable ending in I, with a double vowel before it, have only one I at the close, as mail, sail.
Page 243 - Words of one syllable ending in a consonant, with a single vowel before it, double that consonant in derivatives; as ship, shipping, etc.