Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1012150852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-27269

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Obst, Georg http://d-nb.info/gnd/11759296X

Title:: Geld-, Bank- und Börsenwesen

Edition:: 25., verbesserte Auflage

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: C.E. Poeschel Verlag

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 521 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

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Title:: Zweiter Teil. Banken und Bankgeschäfte

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

M anufacturing Regions of the United States Qo The Great Lakes-Ohio River Manufacturing District The third of the intensive manufacturing districts is fan-shaped, with Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee at the angles. One sixth of the country’s cities of more than 75,000 people are in this district. The kind of manufacturing carried on. This district may well be called the coal and iron district, because it is covered with cities whose chief raw materials are coal and iron. These two minerals naturally meet here, for much of the surface is underlain by coal de- posits and the best of iron ore is brought at low cost from the western end of Lake Superior. In scores of cities coal and iron are the rough sources of all sorts of wonderful machines and articles of steel. These articles are chiefly automobiles at Detroit, ships at Cleveland, cars at Chicago, rails at Pittsburgh, machinery at Milwaukee, building frames at Youngs- town, and cash registers at Dayton. The exact kind of product in each city is often determined by the striking success of one company in a pioneer industry. For instance, after one company had made Detroit famous for automobiles, other companies were formed to take advantage not only of the fame of the city in this line, but of the skilled labor which had gathered there. Other important manufacturing industries. Although the Great Lakes-Ohio River district is best known for steel products, it is im- portant in many other respects also. No other region, for instance, is so prominent in the slaughtering and meat-packing industry. This is partly because there is an abundant supply of corn, hay, and alfalfa for fattening cattle and pigs, and partly because the region lies midway between the western grazing lands and the eastern markets. Chicago alone carries on about one fourth of the country’s slaughtering and meat packing. The location of this district in the eastern part of the grain region, and its dense population, make it important in milling flour and grind- ing corn. Nearly every town, large or small, has its own flour mills. Some convert corn, wheat, and oats into many kinds of cereal foods. Battle Creek, Michigan, is the country’s leading center for such foods. Still another important industry is the manufacture of wooden articles, such as furniture, refrigerators, carriages, boxes, and barrels. Most of the lumber for these comes from the forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Chicago makes more wooden articles of all kinds than any other place in the country, but Grand Rapids holds first place in furniture making.

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