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248 TEXAS ALMANAC.-1952-1953.
Texas Manufacturing Industries, by Classifications.-(Continued.)
All Employees. Production Workers.
T t N u m b e r o
. E u . (Average for
c " the Year). .-.
Title-Industry- . H d . . . ia
y E a E> 1939. 1947. 1V c
Z _ _ _ _ _
JW d d t ~ 4:mEConstruction, mining mchry
Oil-field machinery, tools ..
Metal working machinery .
Cutting tools, jigs, fix-
tures, etc .. .... .
Special-industry machin-
inery, n.e.c...........
Special-industry machin-
erly, n.e.c. ...
General industrial machinery
Pumps and compressors ..
Blowers and fans .
General industrial mach-
inery, n.e.c...........
Service, household machines
Laundry and dry-cleaning
machinery ..
Refrigeration machinery
Miscellaneous machine parts
Valves and fittings, except
plumbers' ............
Machine shops..........
Electrical machinery.......
Electrical control apparatus
Communication equipment
-Miscellaneous elec. products
Storage batteries ......
Transportation equipment .
Truck trailers ...... . .
Ships and boats ...... .
Ship building and repairing
Boat building and repairing
Instruments and related pdts.
Mechanical measuring in-
struments.........
Medical instruments and
supplies ..........
Photographic equipment..
Miscellaneous manufactures
Jewelry (precious metal)
Toys and sporting goods ...
Sporting and athletic goods
Office supplies......
Plastics products, n.e c.. .
Miscellaneous manufactures.
Brooms and brushes-
Morticians' goods .
Signs and advertising
displays ..412
13,446
219
117
2,1241
1,710
1,738
717
229
324
1,631
235
1,190
1,9051
6761
686
1,946
2441
1561
7131
6861
20,735
500
5,103
4,858
245
9211
159
134
158
3.284
2791
374
324
163
264
2,1241
339
722
928$1,171
43,131
608
295
5,946
4,881
4,907
2,123
503
1,105
3,718
577'
2,6331
5,605
2,015
1,959
5,211
634
349
1,874
1,819
57,434
1,'476
15,292
14,708
584
S2,182
392
2851
336
7,609
664
620
544
339
910
4,935
586
1,582
2,532*Withheld to avoid disclosing figures for individual companies.
n.a.-Not available.
n.e.c.-Not elsewhere classified.81
5,923
7
7
592
505
457
296
63
51
431
(*)
312
751
(*)
569
1
441
66
(*)
367
(*)
2,767
188
1,379
n.a.
n.a.
132
(*)
27
.. .o
1,180
90
71
71
30
958
190
393
344304
10,330
200
109
1,691
1,368
1,371
574
201
243
1,395
188
1,047
1,569
535
584
1,714
195
135
636
614
18,285
403
4,582
4,370
212
735
117
116
125
2,800
226
347
302
109
230
1,843
309
589
8205757
3,089
509
274
4,281
3,536
3,289
1,421
413
691
2,874
411
2,111
4,179
1,367
1,679
3,967
456
263
1,519
1,483
46,651
950
13,109
12,603
506
1,5921
246
222
273
5.7431
4671
540
480
222
651
3,8181
515
1,020)
2,0691$1,987
78,419
926
500
9,754
7,911
10,447
5,277
1,080
2,071
8,594
922
6,780
11,559
3,987
3,811
12,163
1,190
645
6,006
5,906
91,893
3,418
22,448
21,472
976
3,681
510
502
385
14,458
1.275
974
826
979
1,558
9,524
1,774
3,166
4,136(Continued from p. 245.)
connections, especially.in rural areas, general
industrial development, increase in electrical
display and the storage-battery demand were
the principal factors.
MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES
This group more than doubled its number
of industrial workers during the 1939-1947
interval, increasing from 1,180 to 2,800, indi-
cating a growing diversity of industrial out-
put. One of the weaknesses of Texas industry
as a whole has been the lack of a large di-
versity of products, principally consumers'
goods. While Texas ranks twelfth among the
states in total value of products, as added by
manufacture, this production value still comes
largely from primary processing of Texas nat-
ural resources-petroleum, forest products.
wheat, cottonseed. A Texan in the course
of his day's routine, from the time he eats
his breakfast until he goes to bed, comes In
contact with relatively few Texas-made con-
sumers' goods.
Texas' industrial futui e will undoubtedly
lie primarily in (1) further expansion of its
chemical industries, (2) increased primary
processing of such commodities as cotton,wool and hides which for logical economic
reasons now are shipped to distant centers
for manufacture, and (3) increased manufac-
ture of the multifold consumers' articles that
enter into maintenance of our present-day
high standard of living.
Many natural conditions and economic
forces are highly favorable to the rapid fu-
ture expansion of the manufacturing indus-
tries in Texas, Texas' central location be-
tween Atlantic and Pacific seaboards is one.
The fact that it has its own seaboard along
the Gulf coast gives it the unique position of
having the advantages of both interior and
seaboard location in domestic and world com-
merce.
Furthermore, there has been in recent
years a great accumulation of investment
capital in Texas. Formerly Texas looked
primarily to outside capital for its industrial
development.
The cam can be aald o1 Texas' managerial,
technical and labor knowledge and skills. All
have grown rapidly in recent years. These
things, added to Texas' great and varied re-
sources for producing vegetable, animal and
mineral raw products-especially its great
supply of natural gas-put it in excellent
position for rapid industrial expansion._^ ___ _____ _ _^II __II O~ ~U_
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