Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

Transportation and the Location of Cities 221 owes its growth largely to the fact that it is the meeting place of two unusually important transportation routes: one, the chief railway be- tween Chicago and New York; the other, the iron-ore route from Duluth to the western Pennsylvania coal mines. The cities, the iron mines, and the coal mines served by these routes all belong to the larg- est of their kind. Hence Cleveland has easy access to enormous mar- kets and enormous sources of supplies, and has become not only a great transportation center, but a large iron-working town. Milwaukee, in a similar position, has responded to the marked productiveness of southern Wisconsin and the plains to the west. From this hinterland railways converge upon the nearest natural harbor on Lake Michigan. There, at the common mouth of three improved and navigable rivers, Milwaukee has grown up. A train ferry to Grand Haven on the east shore of Lake Michigan now brings it some of the business that previously passed through Chicago. QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS A. How the hinterland determines the relative value of imports and exports. foREIGN TRADE oF CHIEF Ports oF UntTED STATES (IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS) Ports “q- IMPORTS EXPORTS ToTAL [MPORTS "XPORT! TFoTaAL New York . . Galveston. . . New Orleans . . San Francisco . Detroit. . . . Seattle . . . Buffalo. . Boston . . Philadelphia Baltimore . [Los Anceles 1048 8 B2 018 281 1 70 1966 289 252 2043 36 212 ih .726 955 oT1 ) Nn 3769 591 583 376 371 369 348 330 296 210 168 h | | Insert the names of these ports on an outline map. Underline the names of those which both in 1913 and in 1927 sent out more goods than they received. What occupations are most important in their hinterlands ? Why do people engaged in these occupations need to import less than people engaged in manufacturing? Name two classes of products which these people do not need to import, but which factory workers must import in order both to live and to work. Frame a statement to show which section of the United States is most completely dependent upon transportation.

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