of the large pouch shoulder bags is convenient for women; a 

 brief or dispatch case for men. Keep it with you. 



THESE UNITED STATES 



This is a vast country, extending across a continent, with 

 traditions, ways of speech and living distinct Historically, all 

 sections have their own story to tell; in natural wonders and 

 scenery, all sections are individual. 



In the northeast, agriculture and industry have supported 

 large cities and concentrated wealth and trade. Here are his- 

 toric shrines: Boston and its surrounding area offers the traveler 

 many sites filled with memories of the early settlement of the 

 United States and of the American Revolution and is the home 

 of Harvard University, oldest in the United States. New York, 

 that vast and thriving seaport at the mouth of the Hudson River, 

 largest city of the world, with its skyscrapers is unique. Inter- 

 national center of finance and culture, it is also the home of the 

 United Nations. Philadelphia, with its Liberty Bell and 

 historical and quaint buildings, is not only one of the largest 

 cities of our country, but, with New York, was one of our early 

 capitals. Here our Constitution was written, here Benjamin 

 Franklin lived. Throughout all the states of this region, sports 

 of all kinds; vacation spots to satisfy every individual taste 

 abound 



The southeast again is dotted with historic sites and mag- 

 nificent scenery. Here developed the plantation system based 

 on tobacco and cotton dependent on slaves in its early stages, 

 that slavery which was to bring on one of the great and tragic 

 struggles of the world, our Civil War. In the northern part 

 of this section is Washington, our national capital, said to be one 

 of the most beautifully laid out cities in the world. Government 

 buildings, national monuments and shrines, museums, art gal- 

 eries, draw visitors the year around. Willamsburg, faithfully 

 restored, reflects the life of colonial America; St. Augustine, 



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the oldest of our cities, holds memories and monuments of 

 Spanish occupation; New Orleans, at the mouth of the Miss- 

 issippi, while really in the region of the central part of the country, 

 belongs to the Old South. It is famous for its Mardi Gras; its 

 French-Spanish history; its fine cookery. Florida, internation- 

 ally famed playground, offers sports of all kinds, winter and 

 summer, and beautiful beaches. 



From the Alleghenies to the Rockies stretch the great plains 

 of the United States. This is the breadbasket of the country, 

 with its wheat and cornfields golden in the harvest. In the 

 southern section, oil, black gold, flows out of the ground, bringing 

 riches and power for industry. Cotton, too, forms one of the 

 basic crops. The plains of the western and southern half of 

 this section support the large and flourishing cattle industry. 



Underneath the northeastern part of our Middle West and 

 overlapping into the east, occur the great coal beds which supply 

 industry and the people with fuel, power and light. Here, too, 

 is oil; and around the Great Lakes are rich iron ore deposits. 



The cities of this vast region are many and modern: Chicago, 

 the Great Lakes seaport, capable of being linked by a chain of 

 lake and river waterways to the Atlantic; Detroit, Cleveland, St. 

 Louis, and Minneapolis, among others, great industrial and agri- 

 cultural centers, with their products of automobiles, planes, 

 grains, and other products; Fort Worth, city of the Texas cattle 

 industry, with its annual rodeo; Dallas, combining industry and 

 cattle; Houston, tidewater port of the Gulf of Mexico, the largest 

 cotton shipping center in the United States, the largest oil ship- 

 ping port in the world. 



The southwest, settled first by Spain, with its chain of missions, 

 is romantic and spectacular. Here lie the great American deserts ; 

 the towering Rocky Mountains; the Grand Canyon; Death 

 Valley; the ghost towns of the silver and gold booms. Here, 

 also, in California, lies the great Imperial Valley, noted for its 

 luscious citrus fruits. Here is a huge mining and cattle industry. 

 Here, also, is another vacation land such as on the east coast, 



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