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Michigan Market Center Promotes Industrial Strength
The pamphlet cites Michigan as a market center in the Great Lakes region with 13,000 plants across 365 manufacturing operations. It notes high skilled labor, abundant water, diverse industries, strong highways, and low taxes, plus major port activity and 1959 trade values. It highlights 500 cities with development programs and 81 percent of 453 Census industry groups present in the state.
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U. S. Census of Manufactures
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