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210 THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA
all statistical calculations J especially, those of international
statistics are subject from the very nature of the material
in question. Not only as eye~openers to economic
theorists and statesmen would this type A (1930) = B
(1905) etc. serve to clarify the intelligence in regard to
the industrial relations of nations; but at the same t.ime
they are just calculated to furnish practical hints as to
the "next stages," the "highest possible" ambitions, or
the nearest goal in business organization as well as econ~
omic policy towards whicli applied economics in India
can reasonably venure in a "planful" manner at the
present moment.
" Recent" progress- in the world's railway mileage
may be seen id the following table which describes the
developments (in miles and not in kilometres) from -1870
to 1910: 16 :1870 1889 1910
1 U. S. A. 52,922 160,544 236,422
2 -Germany 11,729 24,845 36,235
3 France 11,142 21,899 29,364
4 British Isles 15,537 19,233 23,280
5 Belgium 1,799 2,766 2,888
6 Canada 2,617 10,585 24,731
7 Austria 3,790 9,345 13,591
8 Russia 7,098 17,534 35,347
9 Holland 874 1,632 2,235
10 Italy 3,825 7,830 10,425
11 Switzerland 885 1,869 2,791
12 Hungary 2,137 6,751 12,177
16 Railway Year-Boolt 1930 (London), p. 44.