Note 32 — Chapter II · THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES—(continued).
Reading edition
The International Federation of the Cotton Industry employers gave, on March 1, 1909, the following numbers of spindles in the different countries of the Old and New Worlds:—
United Kingdom 53,472,000 = 41 per cent.
United States 27,846,000 = 21 ”
Germany 9,881,000 = 8 ”
Russia 7,829,000 = 6 ”
France 6,750,000 = 5 ”
British India 5,756,000 = 4 ”
Other nations 19,262,000 = 15 ”
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130,796,000 = 100 ”