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

Collection:: Economics Books

Means of Transportation 171 QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS A. How the six common means of transportation compare in cost. 1. Arrange the six means of transportation (page 159) in the order of (a) speed ; (b) size of loads; (c) cost of carrying a ton a mile; (d) length of time that they have been in use; (e) extent of the earth’s surface where they are common. Explain your reasons for each arrangement. A horse and wagon may cost $500 and be able to carry a ton. A motor truck may cost $2000 and carry three tons; a train, $100,000 and carry 2000 tons; a steamship, $1,000,000 and carry 10,000 tons. Explain why the cost of transportation diminishes as the cost of the means of transpor- tation increases. B. Examples of the different kinds of transportation. 1. Be able to point out on the wall map the location of each of theexamples in the table below. 2. ExampLES OF TRANSPORTATION CLASSIFIED BY KIND oF POWER KIND OF POWER ILLUSTRATIONS OF USE {. Human Power (a) On heads (b) On shoulders (¢) On backs (d) By wheeled vehicles (e) On water Jars of sacred Ganges water at Benares Buckets of fish on poles in Yokohama Freight from steamers in Constantinople Passengers by jinrikisha in Hangchow Cheese in rowboats on the canals of Holland II. Animal Power (a) Horse (b) Mule Farm products and the mail to Omsk Pack loads of chestnuts among the Pyrenees Silver ore to.elevators in mines near Mexico City Logs out of forests near Vancouver Passengers through the jungle near Rangoon Pack loads at Lhassa Pack loads of dates to Bagdad Food supplies by sled to Point Barrow Milk to customers in Antwerp Tin ore from the Andes to La Paz (¢) Donkey (d) Ox (e) Elephant oN (c (r (1 (7, Yak Camel Reindeer Jog Llama III. Mechanical Power (a) Gravity Through flowing water On land Bamboo rafts loaded with teak, Irrawadi River Grain out of elevators, Liverpool

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