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National Geographic : 1920 Mar
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MASSACHUSETTS-BEEHIVE OF BUSINESS Photograph from American Woolen Company INSPECTING THE FINISHED CLOTH IN A WOOLEN MILL In weaving it is inevitable that threads occasionally break and that knots appear. Expert menders go over the cloth yard by yard and mile by mile, with eagle eyes, for defects that they mend with astonishing speed and skill. being made than in any other city on the globe. It is interesting to journey there and see how modern men are shod. First of all, it will be discovered that Brockton is preeminently the man's shoe town. Lynn claims first place in the manufacture of woman's shoes, and Haverhill prides itself upon being the slipper city of the world. Being the greatest shoe-wearing as well as the leading shoe-producing country in the world, the American market is such a large one that not only do cities specialize in types of shoes, but manufacturers carry the specialization even further. Massachusetts makes more shoes than Great Britain or Germany and has an ex port trade that reaches ninety countries and colonies. Following a stream of shoes through a factory from uncut leather to ready-to wear product may be rather a long ram- 229
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