source, the service system, the arrival and service patterns, and the priorities used for controlling the line. Letâs ï¬rst look at the primary input into the waiting line system: the customers. The Customer Population The customer population can be considered to be ï¬nite or inï¬nite. When potential
As a result of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, railroad companies lost millions of dollars because without the workers to maintain the tracks, operate the cars, etc. The trains could not function, which meant that people could not ride them. Comments.
Hunt, an oil entrepreneur, bought Joinerâs leases and later sold them to oil companies at a profit of $100 million, thereby adding to his already substantial fortune. In a sense the Joiner strike came at an inopportune time; it was the onset of the Great Depression.