Excerpt from Industrial Location and National Resources: December 1942 Under these developments the Federal Government has necessarily influenced materially the geographic distribution of industry. The selection of sites for Government-owned plants, including those placed under private operation, has been an immediate governmental responsibility; and the choice of locations for privately owned plants, when financed by Federal funds, has also been subject to considerable governmental control. But the wartime influence of Government on the loca tion of industry has by no means stopped here. Important, though less direct, locational effects have resulted from the granting of certificates of necessity, allowing the rapid amortization for tax purposes of investments in approved new productive facilities; from the allocation of war orders, including the encouragement of subcontracting; and from the direct restriction of production for civilian consumption. Before the war, the influence of the Federal Govern ment on industrial location was almost entirely indirect and unplanned. This influence developed in connec tion with policies directed primarily towards other objectives, for example, regulation of transportation, development of power resources, or establishment of labor standards. Local governments, to be sure, formulated some direct policies, such as zoning ordi nances, but local efforts to attract industry and control location were of limited scope and were made without consideration of their effects on other communities. 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.