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Dec 1927
Economic and Engineering Problems of Highway Location
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Volume 91, Issue 2
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“Economic”-like “efficient” a nd some other terms now in frequent use–seems to cover, more or less loosely perhaps, quite a range of meanings. Originally applying to “house hold” or “domestic” matters, and later pertaining to pecuniary means or concerns relating to income or expenditure, its use has grown-apparently quite properly with the development of the house hold or family into the community or Nation-to cover “the production, distribution and use of wealth (or resources)” and “to relate to means of living or arts by which human needs and comforts are supplied.”
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© 1927 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Dec 1927
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W. W. Crosby, M.ASCE
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