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The Mystery of Fuel Wood Marketing In the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Arthur H. Cole
Arthur H. Cole
Affiliation:
Professor of Business Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University
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Abstract

Although fuel wood still supplied 70 per cent of the total energy requirements of the United States in 1900, a marketing mechanism for the millions of cords consumed each year is not evident. Professor Cole concludes that no other commodity of such importance had such little effect on distributive institutions.

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Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1970 , pp. 339 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1970

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