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:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Problems in Primary Production 155 explore by reading and by gathering all the pictures you can find. Geographical and travel magazines will help you in this, as will encyclopedias, school readers, and travel books from the library. When each group returns from its journey, let the leader report to the class the facts which the members of the group have given him as their discoveries on the journey. First Group. Purpose of journey: To explore the West Indies, and to obtain information on the following topics: (1) The location, climate, and natural vegetation of the four chief islands. (2) Their chief products and whether these are raised on farms, on planta- tions, or in gardens; or whether they come from the forest, the mines, or the sea. (3) The chief difficulties in procuring these products. (4) The relative importance of the four islands to the United States, com- mercially and otherwise. (5) How the islands are governed, by whom, and how well. Second Group. Purpose of journey: To discover the mineral resources of Mexico. (1) Their kind and the relative importance of each kind to Mexico and to the United States. (2) Where each kind is found, the nature of the climate and relief, and whether these conditions help or hinder in the work of mining. (3) Methods of mining, and extent to which the products are refined before being shipped. (4) The people who carry on the mining, including both foreigners and natives, and the kind of work done by each. (5) Foreign investors; their effect on the growth of the country. Third Group. Purpose of journey: To examine the forest and plantation products of Mexico and Central America. (1) Kinds of products and their uses. 12) Location of the products: climate and relief of the sections where they are found. (3) Methods of raising or of procuring them. (4) Kind of people who raise them, whether foreign planters or native laborers. (5) Methods of sending to the United States, and importance to this country, Fourth Group. Purpose of journey: To study the principal cities of Central America and the West Indies. (Include among the cities the capi- tals of Mexico and Guatemala, the chief Canal city, the port and capital of Yucatan, the two main ports of the east coast of Mexico, Puebla and Guadalajara, and the two main cities of the West Indies.)

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