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

Manufacturing Regions of the United States 257 Fic. 168. Rolling steel plate. developed. The best part of the wheat belt lies just to the northwest, and the flour market lies farther east. Scranton is a little Pittsburgh, for its chief industries are founded on coal, — anthracite in this case,—and it is the head of a cluster of steel towns. Duluth is the main outlet on the Great Lakes for the Superior iron ore. It now receives quantities of coal from Pittsburgh, so that it carries on iron and steel manufacturing to help satisfy the market of its hinterland to the west. SIMPLE MANUFACTURING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES Outside of the northeastern section, the manufacturing industries of the United States are generally simple. Because of their simplicity, many of them do not require a large body of skilled workers and are therefore often scattered widely at small centers where they can ret a local supply of the chief raw material. The Southern States In the southern states the presence of cotton fields has led to the establishment of many small factories that make oil and * cake ” from the seeds (page 23). Likewise the southern forests supply the pine wood from which turpentine and rosin are manufactured. Industries fostered by cotton growing. Cotton growing has also built up the cotton spinning and weaving industry of the piedmont

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