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 two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

160 Modern Business Geography Ja 51 3 4 i Caspar W. Hodgson Fig. 118. In the streets of Shanghai, as in all Chinese cities, man power is still used in the three ways here shown. Two men are pulling jinrikishas, another man is carrying two heavy baskets hung to the pole on his shoulder. and a fourth is pushing a well-laden wheelbarrow. for Tibet and western China on their backs. In Syria, Persia, China, and Japan the peasants bring home great sheaves of wheat and barley on their heads. In China the wheelbarrow also is largely used for all sorts of transportation. Such use of human power is possible because labor is very cheap, so cheap that two or three men can be hired for what it would cost to support a horse. How man is used for transportation in advanced countries. In spite of marvelous inventions there is still no substitute for man in transporting goods short distances. Even in the most advanced coun- tries man power is used for at least four stages: (1) as products start on their journey; (2) as they are transferred from one means of trans- portation to another; (3) as they pass through a factory: and (4) as they finish their journey to the consumer. Transportation by man in mine, farm, and forest. Deep down in mines, like those of Pennsylvania and the Rocky Mountains, human muscles are usually the means whereby the coal and ore are shoveled into cars. Even on farms where labor-saving machinery is most common, human muscles still lift most of the products from the ground to the wagon or truck. In the forests, whether in Maine, Louisiana, or Oregon, man’s strength is still strained in starting the logs on their journey to the mills.

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