Frontmatter -- Foreword -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- CHAPTER I. The Industry And Its Organizations -- CHAPTER II. Overview -- CHAPTER III. Residential Construction -- CHAPTER IV. Commercial Construction -- CHAPTER V. Industrial Construction -- CHAPTER VI. Highway And Heavy...

These two volumes, bound together, represent the papers, comments, and rejoinders presented at the Conference on Consumption and Saving held 30-31 March 1959 at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania. The first volume is devoted to an analysis of consumption...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Importance of Metropolitan System of Food Distribution -- II. Metropolitan Distribution Agencies Wholesale Market -- III. Scope and Method of Analysis -- IV. Commodity Contrasts -- V. Store-Operation Contrasts -- VI. Implications of Commodity Contrasts --...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- APPENDICES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- CHARTS -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- PART ONE THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1813-1853 -- CHAPTER I ORIGINS OF THE THREE PARENT COMPANIES 1813-1825 -- CHAPTER II OPERATING AS A COTTON-MILL DEPARTMENT WALTHAM, 1814-1825...