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

| Modern Business Geography N ~“hurct: + Rajlroads meen Canals | - == Navigable rivers ap F1a. 137. This might be called the skeleton of the complex transportation system whereby the grain, ore, coal, and manufactured products of the northwest and middle west reach the Atlantic seaboard. The same region is given in greater detail in Figure 144 (page 204). How may iron ore from Duluth reach Buffalo? How may wheat from Winnipeg be shipped to Great Britain? meat from Chicago? motor cars from Detroit? How are imported goods transported from Boston to Detroit? from New York to Chicago ? SHIPS ON THE GREAT LAKES Among the chief natural blessings which the United States enjoys is its share of the Great Lakes. With a combined length of nearly 1500 miles and a shore line of about 4500 miles, they constitute the largest connected body of fresh water in the world. The Great Lakes carry a greater tonnage of shipping than any other inland waterway. Their importance arises not only from their size but from their location and the direction of their longest dimensions. They lie in the heart of that part of the North American continent where the climate is most stimulating and where people are most active in farming, mining, and manufacturing. Their main axis extends east and west in the direction most convenient for trade. Why the Great Lakes are important for commerce. Lock canals have been built around St. Mary’s Falls between Lakes Superior and Huron, and around Niagara Falls between Lakes Erie and Ontario,

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