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In gathering up the goods of producers the car-load is the common unit, and yet an iron-bound rule in a national statute touching the commerce by rail of 100,000 miles of road, comprehending movements of freight where grain by the elevatorful, coal by the output of a mine, wood by the acre, or sand by the hill, might work inconvenience where the exception would be sanctioned if no monopoly was created against the smaller car-load dealer.
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They come in elevatorsful, with their children, and their witnesses, and their lawyers.
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Well, what the hell, any passing observer might observe, some elevators are stronger than others. Yet in each instance an elevatorful comes out at one ton.
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The delegates trickled up, beginning about 7 p.m., then came by the handfuls, elevatorfuls and hundreds, finally making it all but impossible to move in the hall.
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