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

716 Modern Business Geography M.D. Boland Fic. 149. Loading lumber at Seattle. Washington cuts more timber than any other state in the Union, and lumber is shipped from Seattle to ports all over the world, the largest amount going to the North Atlantic ports. Seattle to express trains that have the right of way even over passen- ger trains for the three thousand miles across the continent. So valuable has land become in Seattle and so troublesome are hills in the heart of a city, that the city cut off the top of one of its beauti- ful hills and washed the material down into the bay to fill up many acres of shallow water and make them into land. The work of our chief seaports. Eleven cities — New York, Bos- ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, New Orleans, Galveston with Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle — are the great seaports of the United States. They handle four fifths of all the foreign commerce and an even larger part of the coastwise commerce of the country. Like the great department stores located at busy corners in a large city, they hum with the business of buying and selling. There is ever an outpouring of goods purchased by their customers, and an inpouring of goods from distant parts. They have grown great largely because they can be readily reached. THE LAKE PORTS Next to our seaports in importance come the ports of the Great Lakes. If goods collected on land are to be carried by lake, they are naturally taken to the nearest point on the lake, which means one of

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