Yonkers was once home to the Otis elevator division of United Technologies and numerous carpet mills that have since closed.

Almost three-quarters of the nation's carpet mills are in the Dalton area, where labor and water remain plentiful and relatively cheap.

American carpet mills have been largely free from the foreign competition that has afflicted other textile industries.

The first lady seemed to care about shuttered carpet mills and toy factories, about places like Amsterdam, where the population has plummeted to 19,000 from 30,000.

Upstate, Tired Of Being Ignored Upstate, in the land of abandoned carpet mills and toy factories, politics matters.

After noting that his father was denied work in the carpet mills, the town's largest employers, because he was Jewish, Douglas writes:

After retiring from rugby, he worked in carpet mills.

What is known is that they are prevalent in certain industries, like agriculture, construction, poultry processing and carpet mills.

Today, carpet mills remain the region's major employers and economic drivers.

Many local industries, particularly the carpet mills and shoe factories in the city, used the rail facilities to get their products to market.