Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXVI. Packing and shipping

Collection:: Economics Books

PACKING AND SHIPPING 317 one word of these requirements. Near Du rango, in Mexico, there lie practically all the parts of a large plant, not made according to the instructions given the man who took the order. In the draughting room of the shops which constructed the machinery, they could not understand why the fly wheel of the en gine should be made in so many sections adapted to be bolted together, and so they con structed it as if intended for shipment to Buf falo, and not so that a mule might carry each component part on his back. The entire or der was executed in the same manner. As a result the equipment they turned out is gradu ally resolving itself into iron oxide, at the railway station nearest to the mine it was de signed for, while the people who purchased it are filled with contempt for American meth ods and the American machinery company that received the business has long since vowed never to accept another Latin Ameri can commission. If the packing instructions read:—“Each case to be made of half-inch pine boards,

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