He sent for me to repay me the millions I had lent him without interest; and I took occasion there to speak of my thriving manufactures and my great commercial schemes.
The Emperor Francis had left his eldest son sole heir to his estates in Hungary and Galicia, to his jewels and treasures, and also to the millions of money which he had accumulated through manufactures and trade.
Her wharves will be lined with steamboats; her river-banks with elevators; industries and manufactures will spring up in her midst, and her streets will be fuller of life than they are to-day.
Although manufactures are not extensively developed, I have seen cloth made at Guadalajara that for beauty of colour and quality would compare favourably with the manufactures of England or France.
The principal manufactures are cotton goods, cigars, paper, cement and needles.
The surrounding country yields wine, oil and saffron in abundance; within the town there are manufactures of coarse cloth, leather and pottery.
Between the execution of Charles I and the accession of George III, there was enacted an immense body of legislation regulating the shipping, trade, and manufactures of America.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the Yankees had bent their energies toward building and operating ships to carry produce from America to Europe and manufactures from Europe to America.
Again, when North Carolina laid a tax on peddlers, the council objected to it as "restrictive upon the trade and dispersion of English manufactures throughout the continent.
It would prevent interstate tariffs and trade jealousies; it would enable Congress to protect American manufactures and to break down, by appropriate retaliations, foreign discriminations against American commerce.
Manufacturing nothing and having to buy nearly everything except farm produce and even much of that for slaves, the planters naturally wanted to purchase manufactures in the cheapest market, England, where they sold most of their cotton.
By standing together in favor of low tariffs, they could buy theirmanufactures cheaply in Europe and pay for them in cotton, tobacco, and grain.
When our manufactures are grown to a certain perfection, as they soon will be under the fostering care of the government, we shall no longer experience these evils.
He sent agents to China and Japan to discover what American goods and produce those countries would consume and what manufactures they had to offer to Americans in exchange.
The produce of the West and the manufactures of the East poured through it in an endless stream.
It was supplying capital and manufactures for a vast agricultural empire West and South.
When Jefferson Davis was inaugurated President of the Southern Confederacy, there were approximately only one hundred thousand persons employed in Southern manufactures as against more than a million in Northern mills.
England said to her American colonies: 'You shall not trade with the rest of the world for such manufactures as are produced in the mother country.
It has been of inestimable value to New England, as exposed to the competition of newer manufactures in the Central West.
The agreement to divide the field, dating from 1878, steadily became more irksome, however, to the West, with the development of manufactures of its own.
Less iron, coal, and raw materials and more merchandise and manufactures offered for carriage, necessitated a positive reduction in the trainloads as already mentioned.
The Pennsylvania enjoys a still further advantage, super-adding a rich local traffic in manufactures and merchandise.
And, of course, as population and manufactures grew in the Middle West, the narrow fringe of such competition steadily and inexorably spread in from the Atlantic coast over a wide zone of blanket rates, all based on New York.
Would it make any difference whether the goods were to be consumed at X and Y; or were to be used as raw material in manufactures at those two points; or were to be distributed throughout the countryside from X and Y as jobbing centres?
Manufactures and population continued to spread toward the West; but, imperceptibly, a new competitive factor appeared.
The local market in relatively undeveloped areas is probably insufficient to provide support for manufactures on a profitable scale.
Yet a reduction of their rates on manufactures for building up western trade threatened the business of the Southern Railway, which had been mainly interested in the traffic from Atlanta seaboard points.
Exceptional or commodity rates are also commonly found in a territory like the southern states, where manufactures are struggling to maintain a foothold.
As western manufactures developed, a keen rivalry between the routes respectively east and west of the Alleghany mountains into the South was engendered.
Atlantic seaboard cities will doubtless also seek to regain some of the business throughout this region, which has been lost to them because of the growth of manufactures in the Middle West.
The handicap against the western cities was much higher in respect of manufactures and high-class freight than upon foodstuffs and raw produce.
Great as was New England's interest in the commercial policy of the United States, the manufactures of the section rose to such importance in the course of this decade that the policy of the section was divided.
There were considerable manufactures of rope and bagging, products of the Kentucky hemp-fields; and new cotton and woolen factories were struggling for existence.
The statistics of the manufactures of the United States at the beginning and at the end of the period were so defective that little dependence can be placed upon them for details.
The essential point of the provision respecting woolens favored by the Harrisburg Convention was the fixing of four minimum points, but the committee on manufactures interposed between the minimum of 50 cents and that of $2.
For woolen and cotton manufactures the rate of additional duty was about one-third; on hemp, an important product in Kentucky, about two-thirds.
As it was, the rise of new manufactures helped to save her from becoming an entirely stationary section.
The factory system, nourished by the restrictions of the embargo and the war, rapidly developed until American manufactures became an interest which, in political importance, outweighed the old industries of shipping and foreign commerce.
With respect to the south itself, he declared that cotton, which alone constituted one-third of the whole export of the Union, was in danger of losing the market of England if we ceased to take the manufactures of that country.
From this he argued that home manufactures should be encouraged to consume the surplus, and that some portion of American industry should be diverted from agriculture to manufacturing.
On the seaboard, extravagance abounded as a reaction from the economies of war times, imported manufactures found a ready market, and the domestic factories were in distress.
Thanks to our spinning-school, a stimulus has been given to our home manufactures which will enable us to spin and weave a goodly amount of plain cloth.
Its chief manufactures are glass and porcelain, toys, gloves and chemicals, and the town has tanneries and saw-mills.
The manufactures of the town are principally hosiery and lace, and various kinds of stoneware.
Among its manufactures are farming implements, flour and lumber.
In commercial importance Iloilo ranks next to Manila among Philippine cities; it has manufactures of pina, jusi, coconut oil, lime, vinegar and various articles made from palm wood.
It has an Evangelical church, a modern chateau of the princes of Stolberg, with pretty grounds, and a high grade school, and manufactures metal wares, machines and iron screws and bolts.
A variety of manufactures are carried on, including the making of leather goods, carved wooden vessels, finely plaited mats, embroidered work, shoes of yellow and red leather and pottery of various kinds.
Notwithstanding its distance from Canton, large quantities of produce are annually sent hither, and exchanged for the productions and manufactures of the western world.
This Count's Predecessors establish'd several Manufactures at Hanau; and here is a considerable Trade in Snuff and Woollen Stuffs.
There are several Manufactures at Brussels, of which that of Devos for Tapistry is worth seeing; that skilful Operator having carried his Art to the utmost degree of Perfection that the Curious can desire.
Something is wanting in each of the excellent and wonderful variety of commercial manufactures which would fit it for the various decorative and art processes which modern life demands.
It is, in fact, owing to fortunate circumstances that, if we except the mountain regions of the South, there are no longer farmhouse or domestic manufactures in America.
Manufactures compel commerce, and the commerce of the Pacific will rule the world.
For two centuries Rome had been declining, withdrawing little by little from modern life, having neither manufactures nor trade, and being incapable even of science, literature, or art.
In 1314 the Venetian manufacturesbegan to assume much importance.
The pensions of France and Spain will be much too inconsiderable to support the agriculture and manufactures of so extensive a country.
Both the cotton and woollen manufactures have, of late years, arisen to great importance in the United States.
The knowledge of Chemistry leads to many interesting and important discoveries, and the arts and manufactures are greatly indebted to its aid; indeed, it is requisite to be a good chemist, in order to attain to perfection in many of them.
The pride of the savages was touched at the refusal of their proffered gifts, and this supposed contempt for their manufactures and productions.
It was impossible, according to Marco Polo, to describe the vast amount and variety of merchandise and manufactures brought there; it would seem they were enough to furnish the universe.
Manufactures consist in fabrics of sinamay and other materials.
Manufactures consist in fabrics of abaca and canonegro, of which boat cables are made.
Of the manufacturesand arts, in which Japan so excels, there is no evidence.
Sidenote: Celebrated for hops, andmanufactures in serges and other worsted fabrics.
The district around is celebrated for the superiority of its hop plantations, and possesses manufactures of druggets, serges, and other worsted fabrics, which are dyed in the wool.
The manufactures established here are chiefly those of cotton and woollen stockings, and hats.
The manufactures of the place are serges and pottery.
The manufactures are chiefly lace, sacking, and all kinds of white cotton, wrought by machinery; and the markets are well attended.
Asia Minor, the outlet of Persia and Armenia, on the Black Sea; is walled, and outside are various suburbs; manufactures silks.
Paris; manufactures all kinds of cotton and woollen goods, machinery, paper, &c.
It was the birthplace of Adam Smith, and one of the scenes of the schoolmastership period of Thomas Carlyle's life; manufactures textile fabrics and floorcloth; is a busy town.
Newcastle-under-Lyme, is a coal-centre, withmanufactures of earthenware and iron.
Cardinal Wolsey; manufactures agricultural implements, and exports besides these leather, oil, coke and agricultural produce.
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