L' Algérie économique en 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830538012

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222171

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: L' Algérie économique en 1930

Place of publication:: Alger

Publisher:: Carbonel

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: 328 S.; zahlr. Ill.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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270 Modern Business Geography quinine, and cigars are manufactured in large quantities because their raw materials are grown extensively in the Dutch East Indies. Am- sterdam is especially known as a place where great numbers of dia- monds are cut. The advantages of Belgium in manufacturing. Its position, its coal fields, and its iron mines, with the excellent harbor of Antwerp, make Belgium a great manufacturing country in proportion to its size. Liége, because of its coal fields, is a great steel center like Birmingham and Pittsburgh. Belgium leads the world in glass-making, with the main center at Charleroi. Ghent, in the center of a flax-growing dis- trict, is famous for linen, Verviers in a sheep-grazing district is noted for woolen goods, and Brussels for carpets. In no other country are intensive manufacturing and intensive agriculture more intimately combined. Why Switzerland is a manufacturing country. Although Switzer- land is an independent country, it is only three fifths the size of West Virginia, and is far more rugged. Since coal as well as iron must be imported from Germany or elsewhere, the streams. flowing down steep mountain slopes have been made to do most of the work that is usu- ally done by coal. Thus the industrial workers of Switzerland are as numerous as the farmers. In spite of the disadvantages of a moun- tainous relief and no seacoast, the earnest, careful, intelligent work of the Swiss people has made Switzerland thrive in manufacturing. It specializes chiefly in products for which raw materials can be easily im- ported and which take up little room in proportion to their value, so that their transportation to distant markets is cheap; for instance. watches, jewelry, silks, and embroideries. | Zurich, a large railroad center at the foot of the Lake of Zurich, makes jewelry and is the trading center for watches, which it collects from western Switzerland, the watch manufacturing district. St. Gallen near the Lake of Constance is famous for embroideries on cotton. The United States often imports more than $10.000.000 worth of embroideries from Switzerland in a year. The mountainous parts of Switzerland support so many cattle that great quantities of milk are available for cheese, butter, condensed milk, and milk chocolate. The United States imports several million dollars’ worth of Swiss cheese each year, and Neufchétel cheese is a well known food product in most parts of America.

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