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 four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

The United States as a Market D Leaping IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES, 1927 Ann VALUES (IN MiLLioNs oF DOLLARS) \ RTICLES Silkk. Le. Rubber . Coffee Paper Sugar Wood Wool . . . Hides and skins Fars . . . . . Petroleum . . . Cotton . . . Tin . . . . Vegetable oils. . . Fibers (except cotton) Copper . . . . Tobacco . . . . Precious stones Chemicals . . [ron and steel Cocoa . . . Fruits . . . . flaxseed (linseed) Gums . . . . Nuts. . . . . Sodium nitrate . Tea . . . . Breadstuffs Total 111 349 264 263 260 191 182 172 L136 113 110 101 91 93 88 83 69 >8 78 53 >4 38 33 Raw or un- manufactured 399 347 264 114 258 > 83 113 124 79 16 101 27 18 85 75 20 22 57 32 0 Manu- factured 119 2 137 79 59 2 34 66 67 J . would kill most domestic animals. Hides of cattle come from grass- lands, like those of our own western plains, Argentina, and Canada. The importation of hides and skins is increasing rapidly because our domestic production does not keep pace with our market. Our imports of wool. The reasons why we import wool for home consumption are nearly the same as for hides and skins. Our stand- ard of living and our location in the temperate climate call for woolen wearing apparel. Our farmers find it profitable to use most of their lands for raising crops rather than sheep. Moreover, the sheep raised

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