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

260 Modern Business Geography ing. Another type consists of the manufacture of imported raw ma- terials, such as sugar, spices, coffee, and silk goods. Oakland is es- pecially important for lumber products from lumber cut in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the east or brought from Washington and Oregon by boat. Aside from the universal industries and the canning factories, Los Angeles has two great industries. - One is the refining of oil the supply of which comes from the California oil fields, shown in figure 102 (page 129). The other is unique, because Los Angeles is by far the greatest center of the motion picture industry. Scenes pictured there are shown daily to audiences in almost every country of the world. Several geographical factors combine to produce this result. (1) First comes the climate, with its clear sunny skies at all seasons, and its absence of extremes of either heat or cold. (2) The mountains furnish splendid scenery close to the great city. (3) Not far away the ocean with its fine surf and picturesque islands supplies the scenery for plays of an- other type. (4) And lastly the vegetation varies greatly. Tracts of desert bushes occupy the low, dry plains, wonderful orchards of oranges and other fruits interspersed with rich gardens and grain fields are found in the irrigated areas; while open forests of live oak cover the lower slopes of the mountains and denser pine forests abound higher up. To the stranger who has the privilege of seeing how motion pictures are made, Los Angeles seems like a city in wonderland, but to the players it 1s a place where a great industry has its home. CANADIAN SECTION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MANUFACTURING AREA The manufacturing region of southeastern Canada is practically a continuation of that of the eastern United States. Toronto, as may be seen in Figure 162, lies almost in the area of intensive manufactur- ing, while Montreal is an outlier like Minneapolis and St. Paul. These places draw coal, iron, raw cotton, rubber, sugar, and wool from a distance, and convert them into manufactured goods that are sold all over Canada. Other cities, such as Quebec, Winnipeg, and Vancou- ver, supply local demands. Nevertheless, most of the manufacturing of Canada consists of relatively simple operations, such as sawing boards and shingles, mak- ing wood pulp, canning fish, and making butter and cheese. Like such states as Maine, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Arizona, most of Canada relies on the northeastern United States and England for a large part of its more complex manufactured goods, and devotes its energies chiefly to taking care of its natural resources.

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