sq. yd.
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Cost: $2.50 to $8.00 per sq. yd., depending on road surfaces.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County Agent Monte Hendricks counted up to 50 hoppers per sq. yd., five times the number usually considered to be disastrous.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 42,190 sq. ft. the average cost was 26 cts. per sq. ft. or $2.34 per sq. yd., or $4.73 per cu. yd. of block work.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
Assuming an average wage of 20 cts. an hour the cost of mixing and placing the foundation concrete was 3.4 cts. per sq. yd. or 20.4 cts. per cu. yd. for labor alone.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
The low form requires 10 feet of wire per sq. yd. and the high 30 feet.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)
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