Tomas M. Helinski, 41, and John J. Jaklevic, 37, both of Southold, spent opening day dragging scallop dredges in the deeper, state-owned waters in Orient Harbor because commercial scalloping is not allowed in the more productive, town-owned waters of Hallocks Bay for the first two weeks of the season.
When suitable land in nearby Oldham (then the largest and most productive mill town in the world) had become scarce in the 1860s, there was a mill building boom in Shaw and Crompton, giving rise to the area as major mill town.
Since the industrial revolution of the 19th century, towns and cities have been the powerhouses of the UK's economy, but Truss predicted that the rural economy could be "as productive as towns within 10 years".
The mines are no longer productive but the town has been reconstructed in the style prevalent during the days of the gold rush.
It overtook the major urban centres of Manchester and Bolton as the result of a mill building boom in the 1860s and 1870s, a period during which Oldham became the most productive cotton-spinning town in the world.
By the late 1950s, Kalamazoo was Paper City, one of the most productive paper-mill towns in the world.
Places such as Bury, Oldham and Bolton played a central economic role nationally, and by the end of the 19th century had become some of the most important and productive cotton-producing towns in the world.
While it might seem counter-intuitive, getting people off the computer and out on the town is productive for Facebook.
Motsepe's first sizable contract: Sweeping a marginally productive mine in the town of Orkney, owned by a division of 90-year-old mining behemoth Anglo American.
At its zenith, it was the most productive cotton spinning mill town in the world, producing more cotton than France and Germany combined.
This may be another reason why workers are not moving in from rural areas as rapidly as in China.Nor are young Indians equipped for more productive jobs in the towns.
