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 one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

126 Modern Business Geography United States Bureau of Mines Fig. 100. The coal tipple is an instance of the way in which machinery works for man. The smaller building is the weighing house ; the larger one is the breaker. Trace the route which the mine cars take. What two processes take place in the breaker? Where does the coal go next? How are all the cars propelled? Where are the empty cars going? Compare the amounts of man labor and machine labor emvloved in the work illustrated in this pieture. has extensive iron industries, is surrounded by the anthracite mines of eastern Pennsylvania. The growth of Birmingham, in Alabama, has been encouraged by both coal and iron deposits. . In Europe, ‘ coal cities” are more numerous than in our country. The best known are Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, and Glasgow, in Great Britain; Essen in Germany; and Liége in Belgium. PETROTI.FITM Petroleum has been much used for only about sixty years, yet in this short time the United States has consumed nearly half of its own supply. Petroleum has become so essential to modern man for lighting his home, lubricating his machinery, and feeding his motors that a French general is quoted as saying that the Allies’ battles in the World War * could not have been won without that other blood of the earth which is called oil.” Perhaps the general who called petroleum ¢ the blood of the earth” would think the name even more appropriate if he could look a few feet beneath the surface in some parts of the United States and see the net-

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