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The paragraph below is most unusual. how quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? nothing is wrong with it but it's unusual. why?

"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration … "

(The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's)

there are no letter e's throughout the entire book, i think

no e's used in the paragraph

ya there are no E's

well it just changes the subject really fast and you dont understand it (and the guy above is right there arent any e's)

Posted July 1, 2011 13:15:00

The Australian share market has retreated from modest early gains, after Chinese data showed manufacturing there is growing at the slowest pace in more than two years.

The Chinese manufacturing index result of 50.9 was slightly below market forecasts of 51.3, but is still just above the 50-point level that separates expansion from contraction.

It is the 28th straight month in which Chinese manufacturing has expanded according to the survey, but is also the slowest growth in that period.

The weaker growth comes after Chinese authorities lifted bank reserve requirements nine times and raised interest rates four times since October, in an effort to cool the economy and keep inflation in check.

In contrast, Australia’s Performance of Manufacturing Index showed a 5.2 point lift to 52.9 in June – the first time local manufacturing has grown since February.

The Australian Industry Group said improved performance among textiles, construction materials, basic metals and chemicals, petroleum and coal has helped lift the index.

The disappointing Chinese data has been more pivotal for movements on the Australian share market than the more upbeat local manufacturing figures.

The resource sector gave up early gains, with BHP Billiton down 4 cents at $43.76, and Rio Tinto falling 0.2 per cent to $82.85 by 12:57pm (AEST).

Woodside Petroleum was down 0.7 per cent, and Santos down 12 cents to $13.42.

The major banks also took a hit after the Chinese figures: Westpac was down 1.2 per cent, National Australia Bank 1 per cent, CBA 0.9 per cent, and ANZ 0.7 per cent.

The biggest losers have been retailers: David Jones has slumped 3.5 per cent to $3.92, JB Hi-Fi was down 50 cents to $16.57, Harvey Norman had lost 2 per cent to $2.44, and Myer was down 1.1 per cent to $2.61.

Shopping centre manager Westfield Group was also 1.5 per cent lower at $8.53.

Telstra had bucked the negative trend, rising 1 per cent to $2.92.

Overall, the all Ordinaries index was 21 points lower at 4,639, and the ASX 200 was 0.5 per cent down at 4,584.

The Australian dollar initially dropped about 0.25 US cents on the Chinese data release, but has since recovered to 107 US cents by 1:10pm.

actually,project is given to me…. i have to submit it on 5th jan 10….

plz help me….

I live in a town of apprx: 6,000 and our town has three that at one time collectively employed apprx. 600-700 people.

Why has been war been declared on the manufacturing families of the United States?

If this is this bad in my town how bad is it all across our country?

Jobs have been going overseas since the Carter Administration and only really took off in 1996. so what's your beef?

Keep buying cheap goods produced in China and it will get even worse.

Government has nothing to do with corporations. Most likely the company that used to have a factory there decided it would be more cost effective to just close that one down.

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One opens if another shuts down in the same building.

WAIT! there is one. It was a dynamite factory. It blew up killing everyone who was working sometime in the 40's I think.

its liek that in other places i work in an old abandoned bethlehem steel pipe mill in steelton pa it rain and snows on us cus the roof is mostly gone but we make good money war has been declared on americans in general they dont us producing jus ask the demicans and the republicrats they all love sending our jobs over seas and lining thier pockets in the process

It's truly sad where we now import more crap from China than we make here in this great country. If they would lighten the tax burdens and EPA burdens on business perhaps we wouldn't be in this boat.

Don't get me wrong I am not for destroying the environment, but some of the EPA regs are exasperating.

Always work in the big cities.

all across the country. i was an over the road truck driver for many years. I've seen SEVERAL towns and communities that had businesses and factories leave. a lot of it has to do with local, county, state, and federal taxes. the town i live in has a population of about 10,000. there are several, several abandoned buildings and homes. (oil money comes and goes)

In my home town Nestle closed an 80 year old instant coffee factory and laid off the few hundred employees that two years prior had won awards from the company for efficiency. they said there was no demand (yes they told us directly to our faces the demand was gone – sorry). then 9 months later they opened the same kind of facility producing the same product in Vietnam. Thanks NESTLE for lying to us. they bulldozed the factory and the only reason they remain is to clean up the mess they created (ground water contamination).

So – no old factories here – empty land they could build one on but no factory.

We have more than I can count and more closing today, all the while illegal immigrants pouring into my community taking the rest of the jobs.
How will the High School students of today survive tomorrow?

Kelly… you're asking questions nobody wants an answer to.

Hi Kelly
I probably don't have to tell you about my home town of Flint, Michigan; it's been well-documented in the Michael Moore film "Roger and Me".
We don't have a lot of closed-up factories here; however, we have PLENTY that have been bulldozed, thanks to our government's allowing ridiculously one-sided trade practices.
It started with Japan. Now that NAFTA has been established and Clinton got China into the WTO (a big sarcastic TY to Clinton) it will continue to kill American manufacturing until the middle class is nothing but a fond memory.
We can all do our part by boycotting American corporations that have closed factories in the U.S. and outsourced to slave-labor-wage nations. But we have to let them know—email them and tell them. Their bottom line is their wallets, not loyalty to the American workers who made them what they are; they need to be informed WHY we're not buying their product, and just maybe they'll listen.

Most of them are Heinze OOps forgot about old Kerry

It is called "out sourcing" , a politically correct way of saying "we the executives of the company, are sending YOUR jobs out of this country for cheaper labor, and this way, we executives can declare/ vote / pay ourselves even bigger bonuses" !!!!!!
I have a home in a community of about 200, and we do not have empty factories, however any town over about 1,000 has this dilemma.