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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- The trade began to decline only when mechanical refrigeration made it possible to manufacture ice locally, removing the need to ship it across oceans at all.
- By the mid-1800s, the ice trade had grown into a major industry, employing thousands of workers each winter to harvest, store, and transport the frozen cargo.
- This method proved so successful that ships soon carried New England ice as far as the Caribbean and even India, where it arrived only partially melted.
- He developed a system of cutting large blocks of ice with horse-drawn saws and packing them in sawdust, which insulated the blocks well enough to survive long sea voyages.
- In the early 1800s, an enterprising New England businessman realized that ice cut from frozen lakes in winter could be sold for a profit in warmer climates where no such natural resource existed.