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Show CHAPTER THE WESTERN MARKET III FOR STEEL AND STEEL PRODUCTS The West so dynamically center of was growing long altered the population a continuing brought as our about a of its industrial and of economic moving slowly westward and course before the demands of over a activity period an development. frontiers moved westward, war The in the United States had been of many decades. Two world state of international tension accentuated this tremendous industrial all-out expansion in the West. industry followed at a wars trend, and However, slower rate. The pre- World War II economy of the eleven western states was essentially Manufacturing sary to finished was based on a on agriculture comparatively import large quantities products The is one of raw and the extractive industries. small scale, and it materials, and finished geographical various historical and population settlement. structure of industrial physical activity and semi This has been particularly and centers of economic concentration. in any r e sou r ce s factors which direct the States because of its tremendous land mass, major neces from other 'sections of the nation. derived, basically, from the location of natural many was , course country and the of true in the United great distances between The topographical features, which determine transportation routes, have been of special 54 |
