0 all the businesses that are involved in making goods or providing services, from producing the materials to selling the product
There is no doubt that gauges and machine tools are the indispensable link—perhaps one may say the first link—in the chain of production.
Luxuries are part of the chain of production, exchange and consumption that link the classes together and make them wealthier and happier.
While there are no contractual relationships in this four-tiered chain of production, there are informal agreements between actors that guarantee a modicum of stability.
The book that we buy today might look similar to those of the nineteenth century but the whole chain of production has changed beneath that exterior.
I should not expect a man who has not gone through the experience of this chain of production and distribution to understand all this.
Fourth, potentially the position remained serious, and after what had occurred the chain of production and distribution might take some time to return to normal.
Drawing office staffs are an integral part of the chain of production, and to call them anything else is quite wrong.
We cannot afford to have the transport machine as the weak link in our chain of production.