Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

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

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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

324 Modern Business Geography from being either large producers or large consumers. Those con- tinents are to a large degree the sources of food products, among which the most characteristic types come from plantations. Asia and Aus- tralia are great sources of raw materials. Their importance in this respect is likely to increase for a long time. Asia supplies relatively little food to other continents because her own dense population re- quires so much, but as a source of raw materials for manufacturing her importance is rapidly growing. 19. Suppose that a man in Sydney, Australia, decides to invest his money in manufacturing. Would you advise him to start a factory for manufac- turing cotton cloth? Why, or why not? Where would he get his raw materials? Where would he get his machinery? For what kind of cotton goods would he find a strong local demand? With what foreign manu- facturers would he find himself in competition? Would he need skilled or unskilled labor? Could he obtain labor easily? Would he find it more profitable, or less, to start a shoe factory? Where would he get his materials; his machinery? What kind of labor would he employ ? Suppose that a Chinese company is formed to engage in the mining of iron in northern China. Where would the company order its machinery ? Could any of it be manufactured in China? What transportation prob- lems would be met? What labor could be obtained ? Suppose that the manager of a cotton factory in Kobe finds his supply of raw cotton running short. To what cities may he cable to see if he can procure a large quantity at a satisfactory price? 30. 31. 2.

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