"We know of well-known industrial firms who routinely enter into agreement to supply whole factories, or parts of factories, to countries desirous of manufacturing poison gas, and in some cases countries which have actually engaged in using these weapons," Mr. Arens said.

They are working closely with Chinese parts companies to help them meet these standards; once they do, they are allowed to submit bids for supplying factories elsewhere.

After a walkout of 6,000 Briggs Manufacturing Company workers, who manufactured automobile bodies, US auto manufacturer Ford Motor Company closed its American factories indefinitely, putting 100,000 people out of work, as well as 50,000 in supplying factories.

Therefore they cannot be picked up from water supplied, swimming pools, buildings or factories.

Union leaders last week accused some local firms of being 'virtually on strike' by refusing to supply Leland-DAF factories because of the uncertainty of their future.

In this setting, we allow the possibility that we may not wish to keep all mines and factories open for business, and allow mines to supply more than one factory, and factories to accept iron from more than one mine.

Work-study programs in various parts of China, often with local government involvement, reportedly engaged child labor, whereby schools supply factories and farms with forced child labor under the pretext of vocational training.

But the companies in the Shanghai area, on China's east coast, are reaching critical mass, with some being formed simply to supply factories in the area.

I once visited a large commercial escarole and endive farming operation near Lyons, France, that supplied salad-mix factories with giant heads, 18 inches across, with blanched centers more than a foot thick.

But in 1953, passenger trains stopped running, and the freight trains that used to supply factories along the route gradually disappeared.