Harper's Magazine, Volume 145Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1922 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... mile ; gravel roads , from $ 10,000 to $ 20,000 a mile , according to their width- an average of about $ 20,000 a mile . Our $ 600,000,000 , there- fore , will build 30,000 miles of hard- surfaced roads , enough to reach around the ...
... mile ; gravel roads , from $ 10,000 to $ 20,000 a mile , according to their width- an average of about $ 20,000 a mile . Our $ 600,000,000 , there- fore , will build 30,000 miles of hard- surfaced roads , enough to reach around the ...
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... miles , and by road again , huge blocks of quarried stone were transported , pulled on sleds by man power , it is thought , over the pave- ments , wet to make them slippery . These roads were of a type which we have come to call water ...
... miles , and by road again , huge blocks of quarried stone were transported , pulled on sleds by man power , it is thought , over the pave- ments , wet to make them slippery . These roads were of a type which we have come to call water ...
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... miles . This is an extreme case , practicable only in an undeveloped country , but it illus- trates the tendency . Concrete road construction is an in- dustry in itself , and a comparatively new one . Few who experience the joys of ...
... miles . This is an extreme case , practicable only in an undeveloped country , but it illus- trates the tendency . Concrete road construction is an in- dustry in itself , and a comparatively new one . Few who experience the joys of ...
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... miles , three miles , sometimes four miles away , track having been laid along the shoulder of the road . When the job is reached each box is lifted by crane and swung over to the mixer , where the batch is discharged by gravity through ...
... miles , three miles , sometimes four miles away , track having been laid along the shoulder of the road . When the job is reached each box is lifted by crane and swung over to the mixer , where the batch is discharged by gravity through ...
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... mile , the average haul being eight miles . This brings the annual cost of hauling up to the approximate total of $ 650,000,000 . The cost of hauling over hard - surfaced roads , we are told , ought not to exceed thirteen cents a ton mile ...
... mile , the average haul being eight miles . This brings the annual cost of hauling up to the approximate total of $ 650,000,000 . The cost of hauling over hard - surfaced roads , we are told , ought not to exceed thirteen cents a ton mile ...
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