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Index
Access to cities by interurbans, 118
Acts of Congress
Adamson, 97
Hayden-Cartwright, 229
Hepburn, 123
National Industrial Recovery, 226
Transportation (1940), 133, 267, 250 n, 254 n
Adamson Act, 97
Administrative personnel, 100-101
Africa, 256n
trade with, 148, 261
Agricultural products, 82-86, 89 -90,
195, 204 -06, 224, 228, 235
Agriculture
compared with transportation,
47, 55 output, 47
Agriculture census, 226n
Agriculture Department (see U. S.
Department of Agriculture)
Aids to navigation, 133
Air brakes (see Brakes, railroad)
Air express, 266
Air freight (see Airlines)
Air mail, 155n, 266
Air transportation (see Airlines)
Airline distances, 20
Airlines, 11n, 12 -18, 153 -59
employment, 13, 53, 154 -56, 266
length of journey, 16, 157, 159
load factor, 159
nonscheduled, 153n
output per worker, 58 -59, 154-58
passenger-miles, 16, 32, 153, 266
passengers, 16
plane-miles, 157
revenues, 16, 21 -22, 155
seat-miles, 157
ton-miles, 20 -21, 266
traffic indexes, 31, 34 -35, 154-57
Alabama, 145, 258 n
Alaska, 17n, 130 n, 134 -35, 146, 256 n,
260
Albany, N. Y., 107n, 145
Alcohol, 198
Alfalfa, 195
Alloy steels, 107
Aluminum, 197
Aluminum equipment, 107
American Economic Review, 133n
American-flag and foreign-flag com-
pared, 128, 134-35, 146-47
American Petroleum Institute, 17n,
249 -50
A. T. & T. Co., 224
American Transit Association, 17n,
53n, 122, 217 n
American Trucking Association, 223-
24
Americas, trade with, 148, 261
Animal power, 44, 112, 205
Animal products, 82-86, 89-90, 196,
234 -35
Animals, 196
Annual hours, 95n
Anthracite, 196
Anti-friction bearings, 102
Appalachian mining, 143
Apples, 195
Arizona, 102n
Army Engineers (see U. S. Army En-
gineers)
Articulated locomotives, 105
Artificial stone, 198
Ashtabula, O., 117
Asia, trade with, 148, 262
Asphalt, 136, 196
Assembly line, 103
Asses, 196
A. T. & S. F. R.R., 99n, 102 n, 108 n Atlantic coast, 17 n, 130n, 131, 135,
258n, 259
Atlantic coast rivers, 145

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Transportation Industries, 1889-1946: A Study of Output, Employment, and Productivity. Contributors: Harold Barger - author. Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1951. Page Number: 267.
    
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