The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The ancestors of many of today's Pittsburghers came from all over Europe to work in the iron and steel factories.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The jail would contain fields and factories so that the prisoners could work to provide services to the larger community.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Under one picture she wrote: "While machines are making great progress in automobile factories, the workers might be under-paid.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Men in two special factories worked day and night to make the concrete building material for the dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Is all that possible? Experts say one concern is that lawmakers will try to control company decisions like where to build new factories.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

In the hot,noisy factories where steel was made, she saw beauty and a subject for her pictures.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

In eighteen sixty, American shops and factories produced less than two thousand million dollars' worth of goods.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

It has sold off its less profitable kinds of cars, closed factories,cut jobs and closed sales centers.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Barbara Klein has more. Many Hispanics are recent immigrants who work in factories or on farms.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

They took jobs in the steel factories of Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

It said demand for goods had led to the re-opening of factories closed during the depression.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Late in nineteen thirty-five, workers at several General Motors factories began a "sit-down" strike at their machines to demand better pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

The government has tried to get foreign companies to move factories inland, where pay remains low.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

And his quality control system at Motown was like a similar system in car factories.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Some said it happened because American factories were producing more goods than people could use.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Factories needed skilled workers -- men who knew how to do all the necessary jobs.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

But after the war, women were expected to stay at home and have babies while their husbands went back to work in factories and laboratories.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

So they are under extra pressure to reduce emissions from cars, factories and other sources.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

At the same time, orchids produced in factories have become an important greenhouse crop.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Farmers organized cooperatives to buy equipment and supplies in large amounts directly from factories.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Thirty years later, in eighteen ninety, American factories produced ten thousand million dollars' worth.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The United States is a nation of failing businesses, closed factories and angry citizens.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

By then, more than five million persons were working in factories and mines.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Hundreds of thousands. Some factories -- even some industries -- seemed completely British.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Worldwide,more than six million robots work in factories and perform military service.

VOA: special.2011.06.21