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 three. The field of manufacture

Collection:: Economics Books

244 Modern Business Geography QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS A. Making a diagram of a manufacturing industry. 1. Visit a local manufacturing plant and take notes from which you can pre- pare a large diagram similar to the one for the tanning industry, shown on page 245. Read about the industry in books, magazines, and papers, and ask questions of your parents and friends. Illustrate your diagram by pictures, maps, drawings, and specimens wherever it is possible to do so. Prepare a statement showing how far each of the eight conditions listed at the beginning of this chapter is important in determining the location of your factory or workshop. B. Other centers of your chosen manufacturing industry. 1. From this book or from other books find out what other localities are especially good for the manufacturing industry that you have studied in Exercise A. What are the special advantages of these locations? Does some other region seem to be a better location for the industry than your own region? Why, or why not? On an outline map show how much of the world is called upon to contrib- ute to this industry, and on another show how much of the world depends upon its finished product. C. A study of local industries in general. 1. Make a list of the chief local manufacturing industries. The local Cham- ber of Commerce probably has a full list. Let each pupil report on the industry for which he has made a diagram, and let the class then decide which industries are best suited to your locality. Make a simple sketch map of your town or city. On it locate as many industrial plants as you can. Explain why they are located where they are in the town. Are the newer industries in the suburbs or the center? Why ? What is a ‘‘ zoning ordinance ’’? If your local government has made one, indicate the zones on your sketch map. Write an answer to a manufacturer who has written to the Chamber of Commerce to ask whether your community is a good place in which to locate a factory. Choose for yourself the industry which he wishes to establish. D. The relative rank of different countries in manufacturing. 1. From Figure 162 estimate the relative importance of the six manufacturing areas, and arrange the regions in their probable order of importance. Take into consideration the following points: (a) area where manufactur- ing is important; (b) density of population of the manufacturing area; (c) percentage of population engaged in manufacturing ; (d) distance from large markets. 2. Give reasons for the leadership of the two regions that stand first. 3. Pick out ten countries that show little sign of becoming leaders in industry. and give reasons for your choice. & I

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