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Excerpt from Wholesale Distribution of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables The cities covered are Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with a limited number of cars from Indianapolis and other cities. This survey embraces 9476 cars shipped and distributed between September, 1920, and July, 1921. 3322 cars were Purchased Goods. 6154 cars were handled on Commission. The 3322 purchased cars sold in the wholesale distributing markets for on which the wholesalers' first or operating loss was or of the sales price, and the total loss, including overhead or cost of do ing business of but not including interest on capital or salaries of executives, was or of the sales price. The 6154 consigned cars sold in the wholesale distributing markets for The commission merchants' gross commissions were or of the sales price; their overhead or cost of doing business aggregated or of the sales price, leaving a net profit, not including interest on capital or salaries of executive officers, of or of the sales price. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.