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:: Introduction

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22 Modern Business Geography ton shade, wash with a cotton wash cloth, dry your face and hands with a cotton towel, eat your supper from a cotton tablecloth while using a cotton napkin, rest in a chair upholstered in cotton, study by a light fed with kerosene through a cotton wick, and in the end toss back a cotton bedspread, crawl in between cotton sheets, nestle under the warmth of a cotton quilt, and go to sleep on a cotton pillow. The chief reasons for the wide use of cotton articles in the home are their cheapness and durability, the ease with which they can be cleaned and kept fresh, and the adaptability of the cotton fiber to a great variety of uses. The consumption of cotton in occupations. Nearly every occupa- tion consumes cotton in one way or another. It is used in the fisher- man’s net and sail, the soldier’s tent, the hunter’s smokeless powder, the miller’s flour bags, and the dairyman’s strainer. Manufacturers use cotton in a great many things, such as shoes, automobile tires, books, and oilcloth. Often the manufacturer mixes some cotton with other fibers in making woolen, linen, and silk goods. Consumption of cotton in the tropics. Although the greater part of the cotton produced is used by people who live in the temperate zone, those who live in warm regions also use it extensively. In fact, the people of the tropics use cotton goods almost to the exclusion of wool, linen, and silk. This is not only because cotton is cheaper, but because it is warm enough at all seasons. In this respect tropical people contrast strongly with those, like ourselves, who live in the temperate zone; we use a variety of clothing materials, partly because we can afford to do so and partly because of the variation of the seasons. With many tropical people the question of clothing is not of great importance, because they wear so little. Many of them wear cloths instead of clothes. These they wrap gracefully about the body. Among some peoples, the clothing is merely an apron or loin cloth, which usually lasts a long time. Hence the tropical lands would make only a small market for cotton goods were it not for their vast populations. In India alone there are more than 315,000,000 people — as many as in all Europe outside of Russia. Each of these millions of persons needs at least one garment. Many of them wear not only the body cloth, but a cotton turban of eight or ten square yards, and a cotton shawl about the same size, often embroidered with gold. Some, of course, use as much cotton as we do. The annual import of cotton goods into India alone is valued at more than $200,000,000, and this is in addition to the large amount

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