Excerpt from Industrial Development in Tennessee: Present Status and Suggested Program This study is painted in broad strokes. Consequently, many interesting and important details are omitted, and in the Opinion of some readers, perhaps, too\many small parts of the picture are not painted. The purpose here is to present a panoramic View and broad suggestions rather than a comprehensive study complete inall details. The justification for this approach, aside from the utter impossibility of doing anything else at this stage of our knowledge, is that, in an attempt to think through the problem of what practical things can be done to increase the rate of industrial development in desirable directions in Tennessee, it appears essential to look first at the forest as a whole rather than at individual trees. As work on the problem of industrial development progresses, the individual trees must be studied very carefully. In fact, the formulation of a pro gram which will involve the careful study of these individual trees is one of the main arguments of this study. But in an attempt to appraise the present program and to think through the complicated problem of industrial development, it seems more important to look as carefully as possible at the picture as a whole rather than to examine minutely one small Spot or some narrow field in which some one person or agency happens to work. Consequently, the reader should understand that in this pre liminary study it is not intended to offer definitive answers or final conclusions to the many perplexing but crucial questions involved in the formulation and successful execution of a program of industrial development in Tennessee. Much less ambitiously, this study simply aims to survey the field, to present a few of the basic facts, raise some of the more important issues, indicate a few of the problems on which additional study is essential, suggest some of the more important elements which should be included in an industrial development program, and suggest some types of organization for getting the job done which it is believed will be more effective than those which now exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.