From the turn-of-the-century experience of immigrants who worked in Chicago's mammoth industries to the labor struggles of the 1930s to the seemingly unfathomable closure of the steel mills in the 1980s and 90s, these family stories convey a history that serves as a microcosm of the broader national experience of deindustrialization and its economic and environmental aftermath.
IN THIS RAIN (Delacorte, $24) finds her bristling with anger at the greed and corruption at the heart of the city's mammoth construction industry.
Salisbury is America's key city for the preparation of frozen TV Chicken dinners; known as Central City of the Mammoth Delmarva Broiler Industry and Home of DelMarValous Chickens.
Another industry mammoth, Amazon, follows suit in its AI technology applications and development.
Perplexed by a shifting world tobacco market and helped by the cigarette industry's mammoth damage settlements with the states, tobacco farmers in the United States have begun trying an assortment of strategies for adapting to new markets, with official help.
The annuity industry is mammoth.
Mr. Congdon shepherded into print Russell Baker's memoir and David Halberstam's mammoth tome about the auto industry, eventually founding his own publishing house.
America, the world's second-biggest coal producer after China, has mammoth reserves and a power industry that is turning against coal (currently responsible for almost half of domestic electricity generation).
Thomas B. Congdon Jr., a prominent book editor who shepherded into print Russell Baker's memoir, Peter Benchley's biggest best seller and David Halberstam's mammoth tome about the auto industry, eventually founding his own publishing house, died on Tuesday at home in Nantucket, Mass.
With his background in finance, Mr. Crandall taught his colleagues about the vulnerability of an industry saddled with mammoth fixed costs -- an unoccupied seat represents unrecoverable revenue but no reduction in costs -- to pilot strikes and other business holdups.
