Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a U.S. contractor set out to build a building or a road, he ordered cement from as many as ten plants. The nearest might be next door, the farthest 1,000 miles away. But when the cement was delivered, it all came at the same price, no matter whether it had been shipped one mile or 1,000. The "multiple basing point system" worked that...
Under this cozy arrangement, the base prices of cement were fixed at certain "basing point" plants across the country. Beyond the base price the buyer also paid freight costs from the nearest basing point plant. All cement plants in the U.S. thus charged the same price for cement laid down at any one job. The plants closer to the consumer than the basing point plant tacked on a "phantom freight" which was more than the shipping cost; the plants farther away charged a freight which was less (and took less profit...
Lane 1 is nearest the Cambridge bank of the river. The race starts just above the West End bridge and finishes opposite the M.I.T. boat house...
Pich's nearest neighbor, Trapper George Farrel, miles away in the frozen forest, heard no shots. But Parrel's huskies sensed something wrong and grew restless, soon were howling. Farrel broke camp, set out for Pich's cabin. After struggling through a blizzard he got there in time to hear Pich gasp out his story before he died. Outside, Farrel found the bodies of Pich's huskies. To save them from starving, Pich had shot them...
...this is the increased difficulty among the Faculty and Graduate School of conducting a person-to-person canvass. Six thousand letters have been sent out to faculty members and nonresident graduate students, but something about it makes an impersonal letter far too easy to slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes the entire University with the single...