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...Americans will get by, it is not certain that the American economy, lacking manufacturing, can provide the strength to launch a new nation. Even now, there, are cracks and strains. As of last week, the debt of the Continental Congress stood at 15 million dollars. Recent shortages ranged from wool for Continental Army uniforms to common salt. Without the economic link to Britain, according to some theorists, the colonies may eventually go their own ways, rather like the petty principalities of Germany...
...mine, while Britain was to be its factory, financier and protector. Parliament's decrees that certain American exports could be shipped only to or through Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started to compete with English factories, Parliament likewise restricted American hat and cloth manufacturing. "The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads a House of Commons resolution. When America began exporting iron, Parliament prohibited the establishment of new factories...
...years since the Continental Congress began encouraging new manufacturing, a great deal has been done. Most colonies have forbidden the slaughter of lambs or sheep and the eating of mutton so that more sheep will be available for the infant wool industry ?textiles having suffered from the most stringent British prohibitions. A year ago, there were no fulling mills for woolen cloth in New Jersey; now there are 41. The Virginia Convention resolved to turn "from the cultivation of tobacco to the cultivation of such articles as may form a basis for domestic manufactures, which we will endeavour...
...fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
...going down. A woman announces that she was so high after yesterday's session that she felt no need for food. A man says that on the way home, Seventh Avenue smelled of clover. A hefty housewife, who is wearing a heavy sweater over a wool dress, asks if the air conditioners could be turned off. Ron says "the temperature will be what it will be," but she is allowed to fetch her coat...