Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . " You speak of the $1,000 a mile charge made by the Cooperative for stringing its lines. You say that "private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors." So far as Detroit Edison Co. is concerned, their rate book shows that they charge $500 per mile for stringing the lines to their customers. If the customers connect to the line at the time it is strung, each customer receives a rebate of $100. If, then, there are five customers in any mile, the line-stringing costs...
...feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from rushing into the uncompleted tube is an air pressure of 28 pounds per square inch.* Air locks (pressure chambers) in concrete bulkheads permit workmen to enter and leave this high-pressure bubble by easy stages...
...every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which disregarded his price policy. But open price-fixing was illegal, so Judge Gary would give dinners for all the steelmasters; somehow, when the demitasse came round, everyone knew what to charge for steel. In 1911, when the Government was ready to jump on this arrangement...
...point system." It lowered Birmingham and Chicago prices to a par with Pittsburgh (TIME, July 4). The price cuts caught the public eye, but in the steel world the removal of the old differentials caused a consternation which last week reached epic proportions. Other companies struggled to get into line. Small independents stormed that they could...
...thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with 37-year-old Austin Wyman, who put up the money, he opened, as a side line, the first U. S. luggage renting service, distributed folders headlined "Rent Your Luggage," urged Chicago vacationists to ask travel agencies about the service. To all agencies he offered a 25% commission...