Tag: United States

Transport The US has the best-equipped transportation network in the entire world. Economic prosperity is increasingly dependent on the efficient transport of goods and people, especially over long distances. The quality and performance of transport infrastructure has become a limiting factor in economic development. Roads in the USA measure more than 6 million km. Practically all major cities are connected by a carefully planned highway network, which accounts for 1/3…

It is customary to remember that in the 1940s the European influence on Hollywood cinema found a particularly evident result in the nascent noir genre, a type of detective that left great space for the dark atmosphere of the places and that insisted on the detective’s individuality and his way of relating to other characters rather than celebrating the logic of the investigation. In fact, the construction of nocturnal chiaroscuro in these…

The hunt, which was for so long a resource, not only for the natives, who lived exclusively of bison meat, but also for the European settlers, has lost its importance due to the almost total destruction of the game. The fishing is still widely practiced, both in rivers and lakes, and along the seashores. It is particularly active in the coastal seas of New England, where the main fishing ports are Boston, Glocester…

In relation to the new impetus assumed, as we shall shortly see, by many branches of industrial activities, the USA is improving and enhancing the use of energy sources. In the coal sector, there is no discovery of new deposits, on the contrary there is a tendency to limit the exploitation of existing ones. In 1959, production was around 380 million tonnes, which keeps the USA in a leading position…