manufactory
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His manufactory was renamed The Stanley Works, and over the next century it boomed, employing 5,000 people in and around New Britain and helping to give it the nickname “Hardware City.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Visiting a watch manufactory is a soothing experience during chaotic times, and the painfully slow assembly of these beautiful objects may well fall under the heading of “God’s work.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
The tax likely will top the agenda when Mr. Trump meets Thursday with executives from top U.S. manufactory firms.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2017
Winchester’s own compatriot New Haveners thought he had “lost his reason” when they learned that his new manufactory “was equipped to produce 200 rifles a day.”
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2016
Gurdon was too young to have served in the Revolution, but he undoubtedly worked in his father's gun manufactory as a boy.
From Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini
In August 1865 James wrote a letter to the Congregationalist urging Northerners to come South “to purchase lands, open stores, start manufactories, or newspapers, or schools, or churches” for the betterment of the country.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2017
Hanging in the middle of these drawings are gilded frames holding Bronstein’s watercolors of then-popular porcelain manufactories.
From Architectural Digest ● Apr. 16, 2015
The Turkish .government operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads a House of Commons resolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She had seen forges, ironworks, manufactories in her own world; the biggest seemed like a village smithy beside this.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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