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

200 Modern Business Geography 1g. 142. Looking south over Miraflores Locks. in the Panama Canal. men. The greatest achievement of the canal builders was the em- ployment, for the first time, of modern knowledge of sanitation in connection with a great enterprise in the tropics. This made it possible for a large body of engineers and workmen to avoid the tropical diseases that usually attack the inhabitants of that region. and thus to live in good health. Where the ships at Panama come from. Four chief routes traverse the canal and connect the following regions : (1) The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. (2) Europe and the Pacific coast of North America. (8) The west coast of South America and the Atlantic coast of the United States and Europe. The Atlantic coast of the United States and the Far East, in- cluding Japan, China. the Philippines, Australia, and New ealand. How the canal saves time, money, and distance. On all these routes the canal saves greatly in both time and money. Take, for instance, an example from the first route. As soon as the canal was open, the liner Arizonan began to ply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. The canal route saves this ship 26.8 days on rach voyage as compared with the route around South America.

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