In 1907 Peachtree Street the main street of Atlanta was busy with streetcars and automobiles. . . The British colonies in North America became part of the global British trading network as the value tripled for exports from British North America to Britain between 1700 and 1754 the colonists were restricted in trading with other European powers but they found profitable trade partners in the other British colonies particularly in the Caribbean the colonists traded foodstuffs wood tobacco and various other resources for Asian tea West Indian coffee and West Indian sugar among other items American Indians far from the Atlantic coast supplied the Atlantic market with beaver fur and deerskins British North America had an advantage in natural resources and established its own thriving shipbuilding industry and many North American merchants engaged in the transatlantic trade, Legislative history Dutch 3.0% French 1.4% With a GDP of $385 billion the Atlanta metropolitan area's economy is the tenth-largest in the country and among the top 20-largest in the world Corporate operations play a major role in Atlanta's economy as the city claims the nation's third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies it also hosts the global headquarters of corporations like the Coca-Cola Company the Home Depot Delta Air Lines AT&T Mobility Chick-fil-A and UPS Over 75% of Fortune 1000 companies conduct business operations in the city's metro area and the region hosts offices of over 1,250 multinational corporations Many corporations are drawn to the city by its educated workforce; as of 2014 45% of adults aged 25 or older residing in the city have at least 4-year college degrees compared to the national average of 28%. . 5 Human trafficking 53/12 84/29 East Asia Dan Brouthers Children's Museum of Atlanta Industry connections Main article: Railway electrification system 13 Notes.
Johns Creek city hall Talgo equipment on the state-funded Amtrak Cascades in 2006 Amtrak partnerships with state governments grew throughout the early 2000s. Precipitation totals in mm, Authors have grappled with Georgia's complex history Popular novels related to this include Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Olive Ann Burns' Cold Sassy Tree and Alice Walker's the Color Purple, In recent times efforts at reforming passenger rail have addressed labor issues in 1997 Congress released Amtrak from a prohibition on contracting for labor outside the corporation (and outside its unions) opening the door to privatization Since that time many of Amtrak's employees have been working without a contract the most recent contract signed in 1999 was mainly retroactive. . .
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