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An Examination of the Relative Downward Industrial Price Flexibility, 1870–1921

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Austin H. Spencer
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary

Abstract

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Type
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1974

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page 300 note 1 These eleven industries were: iron and steel, copper, lead, oil, chemicals, glass, meat packing, sugar, edible starch, tobacco, and whiskey.

page 300 note 2 The products used in this study were: foods; flour (rye, wheat), rice, lard, currants; farm products: beans, corn, wheat, rye, hay, sheep, cows, live fowl; iron: pig iron, lake ore coke, foundry no. 2, American foundry no. 1, Grey Forge, American Foundry no. 2, bessemer, Anthracite no. 1 and no. 2; steel: steel rails, wire rods, steel beams, steel billets no. 1 and no. 2, soft steel ban, tank plates, nails; copper: ingots, sheet, wire; lead: pig, pipe; oil: petroleum, refined, oil; chemicals: muriatic acid, sulphuric acid, matches, glycerine, blue vitroil, soda ash, caustic soda, gun powder; glass: window glass 1st and 3rds; meat packing: cod, split herring, mackerel cheese, butter, pork, hams, eggs, mutton, bacon sides, beef sides; sugar: (granulated, white, pulverized, crushed, loaf); edible starch: Silver Starch, Kings Starch; tobacco: manufactured black, manufactured bright, smoking tobacco; whiskey: whiskey, grain alcohol.