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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159 Modern Business Geography and La Plata, but Bahia Blanca and, far to the south, Punta Arenas. The chief grain exported is wheat, although corn is coming into prom- inence. Formerly animals were shipped alive in great numbers to western Europe, but now they are shipped in the form of beef, mutton, hides, and wool. Punta Arenas, the southernmost of the world’s towns, is interesting rather than important. A very small place, it is included in this group only because it exports sheep. 15. Practice making a sketch map of South America. Show the location of every port mentioned in this section, and after the name of each sea- port put in parentheses the name of its chief export. Underline the names of the important ports of the continent, and double-underline the name of the leading port. At first, have before you the map in the book while you sketch. After a few trials see if you can do all the work from memory in three minutes. The chief work of the ports. All the ports of South America are engaged chiefly in sending raw materials to European nations and the United States. The returning steamers bring back manufactured products. During the World War, the European nations were so occupied with fighting that they could not keep up their former volume of trade with South America. Germany, which had been one of the chief South American customers, could do no trading whatever. Hence the United States in part took the place of the Fig. 115. European settlers are responsible for a good deal of the development of the cattle- raising industry in the southeastern part of South America. Their experiences in many ways resemble those of the pioneer cattlemen in our own Wegt

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