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 two. The field of transportation

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168 Modern Business Geography trucks, in spite of their costliness, are cheaper and more speedy. This is why many large companies that constantly handle heavy loads have displaced their horse wagons with motor trucks, at least for long hauls. Small local companies with only a few customers and many large companies in cities where the congestion forces trucks to move slowly still use horses and will probably do so for some time to come. Although the automobile ordinarily works best on graded roads, it can also be used on bad roads. Tractors also enable motors to perform many kinds of farm work, such as plowing and reaping, especially if it can be done on a large scale. Nevertheless, even in our own coun- try there are as many horses as there are automobiles. In Great Britain there is only one automobile for every two horses, in France one for three, in Germany one for about twenty, and in most other countries the proportion is still smaller. Motor vehicles in cities and on farms. Motor trucks are preémi- nently vehicles of the cities. At such a shipping point as Jersey City, trucks in a seemingly endless line are backed up against scores of ware- houses. No sooner does one rumble away from the docks of the great transatlantic steamship lines with its load of boxes, bales, machinery, bananas, or other products, than another takes its place. At first used only in cities, motor trucks now carry goods hundreds of miles from one city to another or from farms to railroads. So heavy are they and so much do they wear out the roads that the up- keep of the highways where they are used is a most serious problem. Ordinary passenger automobiles are about ten times as numerous as motor trucks. On such a street as Fifth Avenue in New York, cars of every make, from morning to midnight, form a vast procession, two abreast on each side of the street. In certain cities, like Detroit and Akron, automobiles are important not only because great numbers are made there, but because the workers in the automobile factories are so highly paid that they can afford to own cars, while the surround- ing country is level and a motor car can go almost anywhere. In the level prairie states, such as Iowa and Kansas, the number of automo- biles in proportion to the population is even greater than in the cities, for almost every farmer has one. Airplanes. Airplanes are so new that they have as yet had little effect on transportation. Their use is to carry passengers, mail, and light, expensive articles, like silk and precious stones, very rapidly for long distances. To carry a ton a mile by airplane costs several dollars. How geography influences air navigation. At first thought it may seem that airplanes and dirigibles can go everywhere with equal ease.

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