"Councilman Wade left his estate."
After hanging up the phone, the secretary turned and looked at the mayor, who was smoking by the window.
The mayor had recently taken to opening the window and gazing earnestly at the city, which had always been beautiful, possessing an aesthetic that no other place had.
Although there was an industrial system here, it wasn't dominated by heavy industry; instead, light industry was more prevalent.
The factories would pull parts back from the docks, process or assemble them simply, and then send them back to the dock; heavy industry wasn't popular here.
Because there wasn't a conducive atmosphere for heavy industry, lacking supporting upstream and downstream businesses, this place wasn't like those heavy industrial cities where everything from steel plates to a screw could be found within the same city.
Here, if someone wanted to engage in heavy industry, their first obstacle would be the inflated prices of parts.
