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THE industrial position of the north-east coast of England has been built up on the four basic industries of coal mining, iron and steel production, shipbuilding and ship-repairing, and marine and general engineering. These four industries are among those most severely hit by the post-War depression. The report on the industrial survey of the area conducted in 1931 for the Board of Trade by Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, stated that the problem facing these industries was one of the scaling-down to meet a diminished demand which is likely to be permanent, but suggested that with enterprise the north-east coast should retain its pre-War proportion of the total output of the whole country.
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Science and Leadership in Industry. Nature 136, 313–315 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136313a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136313a0