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:: Part three. The field of manufacture

Collection:: Economics Books

Manufacturing Regions of the United States 263 What advantages has New York over Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania over New York? What effect has each set of advantages on the type of manu- facturing? Why? New Jersey has neither water power nor mineral resources, yet stands hich as a manufacturing state. Explain why she specializes in (a) oil refining ; (b) sugar refining; (c) silk weaving; (d) steel manufacturing. F. Niagara Falls as a source of power. |. How does it happen that the United States and Canada share the power obtained at Niagara? How do they use this power ? Let some member of the class who is interested in machinery make a brief report on the means by which the power is conveyed to the factories, illus- trating with drawings, if possible. Canada lacks abundant supplies of coal. Canada has utilized most of her share in the power from the falls. Explain the connection between these two facts. Many persons object to unrestricted use of the falls for mannfacturing purposes. What are their reasons? Do you agree or dicagres Locate Muscle Shoals, and find out how the potential wa’ ~~ ower com- pares with that at Niagara. ) Fig. 169. These falls in northern India are an undeveloped source of water power. Until re- rently such falls have been likely to remain unused, since they are far distant from towns and villages; but now that electricity is making it possible to earrv water power long distances, cities n the lowlands are ashle to 1tilize it

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