L' Industrie cotonnière en Allemagne

Food products (Vol. 1, nr. 12)

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Identifikator:: 84539584X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-36509

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Koechlin, Armand

Title:: L' Industrie cotonnière en Allemagne

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Pelletier

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (387 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Impots

Collection:: Economics Books

The Story of Pittsburgh ry ERSONS who have been in the habit of regarding Pitts- burgh as “The Workshop of the World,” with iron and steel as its basic products, and as a great market for coal and coke, with continually enlarging business in petro- eum products and natural gas, as detailed in previous issues of this series of booklets, will no doubt be surprised at the foremost place held by this city in the manufacture and dis- position of “Food Products.” The State of Pennsylvania is known all over the world as a Commonwealth of mechanical manufactures. Were it not for this eminence, it would be known as a great agricultural and stock raising commonwealth. If it had no vast iron mills, coal mines, glass factories, and petroleum producing territory, it would command attention as a producer of wheat, corn, oats, cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses. Its forests are wider in sxtent than some States, and its lumber business is vast. The value of stone quarried in Pennsylvania is the very first in the whole United States. The chief center of cement production in the nation is in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is more than 158 miles from North to South, being larger than the distance between two parallels of latitude, 42 degrees marking its Northern boundary, while the parallel of 40 degrees lies to the North of a line running above Philadelphia, York, Uniontown, and Waynesburg. Its length from New Jersey to Ohio is 302 miles. The area of its land surface is 45,126 square miles and its population is greater than any other State in the Union except New York. By way of comparison with one item, it may be stated that in the year 1922, when the potato crop of the United States was the largest on record, Pennsylvania was the fifth

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