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Page 269 - These estimates are the averages of separate estimates which are published for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee. The official figures are supplemented from time to time by numerous private forecasts, for instance those in
Page 11 - He defines economic geography as " the study of the different kinds of environment as they affect the different ways in which men get a living, and deals with natural resources, industries, and the distribution of useful products.
Page 182 - Society holds a competition among its members for 35mm transparencies depicting railroad operations in the six New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) past or present for use on their yearly calendar.
Page 116 - The United States is the only country in the world in which the jobs in services outnumber the jobs in goods industries.
Page 182 - ... originating in the territory east of Chicago and the Mississippi River, west of the western termini of the trunk lines, and north of the Ohio River, on traffic destined to the western termini of the trunk lines and points east thereof.
Page 5 - In this book the facts and principles of industry and commerce are organized upon a geographic basis. The limits implied in the term commercial geography are expanded into the broader and more significant conception of economic geography, "or a study of the ways in which different peoples in different regions get a living.
Page 20 - ... his duty to his own as well as future generations, as we, natives of less temperate climates, can do by toiling in the cold of winter to sow, and in the heat of summer to reap...
Page 21 - ... or repositories of the dead : The Other most important article of building and carving is their boats ; and, perhaps, to fabricate one of their principal vessels with their tools, is as great a work as to build a British man-of-war with ours.
Page 172 - Harbor is located on the west shore of Lake Michigan, 85 miles north of Chicago, 111.
Page 178 - O'Fallon to resign as agent effective March 1, 1827. Dougherty succeeded him in the same year. In 1827 the Army abandoned Fort Atkinson and withdrew down the river to establish Cantonment (later Fort) Leavenworth, located on the west bank of the Missouri near the mouth of the Little Platte. Dougherty, claiming that the presence of the military was necessary to enforce the laws, protect government property, and effectively control the Indians,10 requested permission to remove the • Annie Heloise...