During World War II, the Bay area was home to more than 30 shipyards, machine shops and factories.
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Masayuki Okano has a factory in Mukojima, a section of Tokyo's Sumida ward that is jammed with small machine shops.
That's a mouthful. (Laughter.) Machine shops and automotive mechanics were some of the first classes you could take.
Small machine shops, for instance, grew a remarkable 12.8 percent, but the industry as a whole grew an outstanding 20.5 percent.
Discounting the brief period after World War II when underutilized machine shops turned out bedroom furniture, this is Boeing's first consumer business.
The old machine shops, tool and dye makers and myriad parts manufacturers were decimated as that work often went offshore to cheaper manufacturers.
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It was up to the mills of Pittsburgh and the machine shops of Cincinnati to make the innovative best-quality goods that the world demanded, and that only specific cities knew how to make.
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The next layer includes a variety of additional services and activities: radio and television studios, machine shops, carpentry shops, automatic teller systems, recreation facilities, chapels, libraries, athletic facilities, and the list goes on.
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Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.
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Imagine, if you will, that Monday night we heard from local restaurant and catering companies throughout the nation, then on Tuesday night we heard from auto dealerships, Wednesday night was machine repair shops, Thursday was real estate agencies, etc.
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