The Making of America, Volume 3Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors |
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... amount , in comparison with the enormous crops of China and India . As with corn , so with cotton . Of this textile ... amounts , importing practically all we use ; but in the production of tobacco we lead with 37 per cent of the world's ...
... amount , in comparison with the enormous crops of China and India . As with corn , so with cotton . Of this textile ... amounts , importing practically all we use ; but in the production of tobacco we lead with 37 per cent of the world's ...
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... amount which sails under the United States flag . The next is Germany , which possesses 8 per cent only . It will be seen from this that although our mer- chant fleet is little more than half that of Great Britain , it is very large ...
... amount which sails under the United States flag . The next is Germany , which possesses 8 per cent only . It will be seen from this that although our mer- chant fleet is little more than half that of Great Britain , it is very large ...
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... amount that went from northern Ohio and western New York , nearly all western produce was sent down the rivers to New Orleans . Not only was this an expensive and dangerous voyage before the days of steam- boats , but there was very ...
... amount that went from northern Ohio and western New York , nearly all western produce was sent down the rivers to New Orleans . Not only was this an expensive and dangerous voyage before the days of steam- boats , but there was very ...
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... amount was raised about New Orleans in Louisiana , near Natchez in Mississippi , and near Nashville in Tennessee ; but in 1802 only 29,000 bales were exported from New Orleans , and this had increased to only 37,000 in 1816. About the ...
... amount was raised about New Orleans in Louisiana , near Natchez in Mississippi , and near Nashville in Tennessee ; but in 1802 only 29,000 bales were exported from New Orleans , and this had increased to only 37,000 in 1816. About the ...
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... amount rose to 161,000 bales in 1822 , 428,000 bales in 1830 , and reached 923,000 in 1840. The cultivation of sugar in Louisiana was also increasing at this time , and was equally profitable . The effect of this extension of cotton and ...
... amount rose to 161,000 bales in 1822 , 428,000 bales in 1830 , and reached 923,000 in 1840. The cultivation of sugar in Louisiana was also increasing at this time , and was equally profitable . The effect of this extension of cotton and ...
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