Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
3,897,268,647 visitors served.
forum Join the Word of the Day Mailing List For webmasters
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Rust Bowl

   Also found in: Wikipedia 0.01 sec.
Rust Bowl
Any area that was once the home of many manufacturing plants and related companies, but has seen decline as companies have either gone bankrupt or moved to areas with a lower cost of doing business. Rust bowls are most common in the developed world. Pennsylvania, for example, forms part of the Rust Bowl in the United States.


Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Feedback
Add definition
Mentioned in?  References in periodicals archive?   Financial browser?   Full browser?
No references found
 
Somehow, the bureaucrats would have to figure out not only how to make the weed-choked rail infrastructure of America's Rust Bowl work again, but also how to convince Congress and the White House that they could earn a profit doing it.
One result: the term Rust Bowl entered the American vocabulary as whole industries - steel and machine tools, most notably - all but vanished as Japanese and other competitors rode to glory on their cheap currencies.
We tend to associate this with fly-by-night operations, but if we think twice we can recall countless serious and sophisticated industrial operations in Ontario, Quebec, and the American rust bowl that have packed up and moved South in the past ten years.
 
 
 
Financial Dictionary
?

Terms of Use | Privacy policy | Feedback | Advertise with Us | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc.
Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.