See elevatorful in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1884 June 18, Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Forty-Eighth Congress, First Session, volume XV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 5315:",
"text": "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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"ref": "1977, Norman Ward, Her Majesty’s Mice, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 52:",
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"ref": "1985, Tonia Chao, Communicating Through Architecture: San Francisco Chinese Restaurants as Cultural Intersections, 1849-1984, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, →OCLC, page 130:",
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