Excerpt from Detroit Wholesale Food-Distribution Facilities Retail buyers in and about Detroit, the fifth largest city in the country, and the large st distribution area for food in Michigan, pay nearly $1 billion annually (wholesale) for the billion pounds of food received from almost every State and many foreign countries. This food was handled by 432 independent wholesalers, 5 national food-chain organiza tions, 1 stockyard, and 8 cold storage warehouses. About 48 percent was received by rail, and 43 percent by truck; the rest arrived by boat or airplane, or was locally proc essed. 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.