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 three. The field of manufacture

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Manufacturing Regions of the United States 255 men, of all nationalities, work at the great blast furnaces where iron ore is smelted to make pig mills where the steel is rolled out into rods and plates for further use in industry. the automobile began to be important, and the industry naturally came to have a center. Detroit was no better adapted to be such a center than several other cities; but when once it had become the automobile city, it grew so fast that it is more than twice as large as Milwaukee, and is one of the world’s greatest cities. In the southern part of the middle-western manufacturing district, Cincinnati is the largest of a group of cities which includes Indianapo- is, Columbus, and Dayton. These cities lie some distance from the ron-ore route of the Great Lakes, but are supplied with cheap coal either by way of the Ohio River or from local coal fields. Consequently they do not engage largely in the manufacture of the heavier kinds of ron goods, such as steel rails and steel cars, but specialize in articles ike typewriters, cash registers, and automobile ignition apparatus, articles in which the amount of iron is small in proportion to the work put into the product. Slaughtering, meat packing, and the accom- panying occupations, such as soap making, are also important, because many animals are raised on the surrounding farms; but the bulk of the animals produced farther west go to Chicago and St. Louis. Manufacturing in the Northeastern Section outside of the Three Districts There is a large part of the northeastern section of the United States that is in marked contrast to the area of concentrated manu- facturing. Where manufacturing is extensive and simple. In the North At- lantic district, the Central New York district, and the Middle West district, manufacturing is infensive,; that is, the region is well covered with manufacturing cities. Many of them are large, and their indus- trial plants are on a great scale. The type of manufacturing is also

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