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:: Introduction

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Cotton 15 The dyes or coloring materials come from both the vegetable and the mineral kingdom, and are obtained from nearly every part of the world. Most of the dyes come from coal tar, which is given off when coke is made from coal, but certain special colors are derived from other sources. As you read this sentence, many chemists are busy experimenting with coal-tar products and other chemicals, inventing cheaper ways of making old colors or producing new colors that they think people will like. In the forests of many distant regions men are now gathering bark, roots, flowers, and berries of various plants and trees for dyeing the cotton cloths that you will be wearing or using after a year or so. Others are growing plants in their fields for the same purpose. Whatever the color of your cotton clothes may be, the greatest probability is that the dye came from a coal mine. Before the World War, Germany led the world in chemical industries, and her coal mines supplied most of the world with dyestuffs. So skillfully had German chemists worked upon coal-tar products that they were able to produce nearly seventy thousand different tones of color. When the United States was cut off from Germany during the World War, our own manufacturers of dyestuffs increased their out- put enormously and made nearly all the colors formerly imported from Germany. The United States was in time able to supply other countries with dyes not only for cotton, but also for woolens, linen, paper, and leather. How Geographical Conditions Affect Cotton Manufacturing New England the center for cotton manufacturing in the United States. We are now ready to consider the geographical conditions which cause cotton manufacturing to be concentrated in certain places. We have seen that in the United States, Fall River is the leading center of this industry. Figure 12 shows that many of the neighboring cities also manufacture cotton goods ; for instance, New Bedford, Pawtucket, Lowell, Manchester, and numerous smaller centers. In fact, New England is the leading cotton manufacturing region of the country. Let us see why this is so. How water power and glaciation help cotton manufacturing. A study of Fall River will help to solve the problem. In the first place, this city, as its name implies, is located on a river which, although small, has numerous falls and rapids. The falls were early used for power ; today, however, they supply only a little of the power used, compared with that furnished by coal brought from Pennsylvania.

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