The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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Page 676
... nearly half the steel of the country , shipping it to all parts of the world . Its production of pig - iron in the same year was nearly 14,000,000 gross tons . Its famous , and very dirty , industrial city , Pittsburgh , is the centre ...
... nearly half the steel of the country , shipping it to all parts of the world . Its production of pig - iron in the same year was nearly 14,000,000 gross tons . Its famous , and very dirty , industrial city , Pittsburgh , is the centre ...
Page 686
... nearly $ 142,000,000 . It is also the greatest rice - producing State . Negroes make up nearly one - third of its population . At New Orleans , located about one hundred miles from the mouth of the Mississippi , scenes meet our eyes ...
... nearly $ 142,000,000 . It is also the greatest rice - producing State . Negroes make up nearly one - third of its population . At New Orleans , located about one hundred miles from the mouth of the Mississippi , scenes meet our eyes ...
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... nearly seven thousand , not including a thousand miles of tramways . Shipping has made as great strides as railways . In 1891 Japan owned only a tenth share in the total foreign carrying- trade of the country ; in 1912 she owned nearly ...
... nearly seven thousand , not including a thousand miles of tramways . Shipping has made as great strides as railways . In 1891 Japan owned only a tenth share in the total foreign carrying- trade of the country ; in 1912 she owned nearly ...
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INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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