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Page 269 - These estimates arc the averages of separate estimates which are published lor 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 20 - South sea, far excel most of the Americans in the knowledge and practice of the arts of ingenuity, and yet they had not invented any method of boiling water ; and having no vessel that would bear the fire, they had no more idea that water could be made hot, than that it could be made solid.
Page 182 - In the New England states — Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
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 - River, on traffic destined to the western termini of the trunk lines and points east thereof. Fourth. Traffic between competitive interior points in the Middle States (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia...
Page 5 - ... explains itself. Children everywhere — their homes, their clothing, their schools, their games, food, manners and customs, are depicted in this imaginary tour around the world. Elementary Economic Geography, by Charles Redway Dyer, FRGS ($1.28.) Commercial Geography has here been translated into a study " of the ways in which different peoples in different regions get a living," which is after all bringing it out of the dry and the abstract, into the warm and the living. As this is meant for...
Page 20 - ... that the trees grew here spontaneously, but, if a man in the course of his life planted ten such trees (which, if well done, might take the labour of an hour or thereabouts), he would as completely fulfil 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 80 - ... the invention of the steam engine in the latter part of the eighteenth century,1 reached a point marking the real beginning of large-scale production as we know it to-day.
Page 183 - The White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the Adirondacks of New York, are considered outliers of this great chain, as are also the Catskills, of the latter State.
Page 129 - Why, sir, it is in order that we may have from eleven o'clock in the morning until six or seven o'clock in the evening...