Word: transportations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: Hadley, Railroad Transport tion; Hudson. The Railways and the Republic; Jevous, the Railroads and the State, in Methods of Social Reform...
...decrease in operating expenses. This has been brought about primarily through the consolidation of small roads under one management, so doing away with innumerable agents and overseers. Everything now tends to an economy resulting from doing business on a large scale. It has been deemed cheaper to transport to Chicago from New Orleans via Liverpool in order to take advantage of the through rates. Modern industry in all other things as in railroads shows this tendency to decrease the operating expenses in production. This has taken a great hold upon the railways. It will soon make itself felt still more...
...consideration. Should the canoe be desired for use along the seaboard or on large lakes, a sailing canoe of the Nautilus or Rob Roy types, a good sea-boat and one easy to manage, will not aurally be selected. These canoes are somewhat heavy and are not easy to transport on land as it is not supposed that there will be much need of that kind of work. On the contrary, if the canoe is intended for inland use on lakes, rivers and for general service, lightness is of primary importance, as the owner will find after he has "packed...
...ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, it perfectly commanded that great avenue of supply. No transport could pass, and only ironclads running by at night could escape destruction at the hands of the frowning batteries crowning the hills for several miles along the river. Grant, with a powerful army, lay two hundred and fifty miles to the north. Guarding the approaches in front of Grant was Pemberton...
...good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet...