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 Outside the United States 265 Here are some of the chief reasons for these striking conditions : (1) Western Europe, more than any other part, is inhabited by vigorous and inventive peoples, and enjoys a climate that en- courages active work. [ts position near the center of the land hemisphere gives it an advantage over an out-of-the-way region like New Zealand, for instance. The European manufacturing section faces the North Atlantic, and is traversed by navigable rivers leading to the Baltic, North, and Mediterranean seas. No part is more than three hundred miles from an arm of the sea. The many fine harbors allow raw materials to be readily im- ported and the finished products to be exported. (5) Western Europe contains excellent coal and iron mines. 6) The relief, soil, and climate are almost ideal for many of the chief crops that supply raw materials for factories and food for workers. Within the section, or only a few hundred miles outside it, live about two hundred million highly civilized people who consti- tute a compact market which normally has great purchasing DOWer. GREAT BRITAIN — THE LEADER IN TEXTILES AND SHIPBUILDING Great Britain is second only to the United States in the production of manufactured goods. It makes more cotton and woolen goods than any other country. Half the value of the exports consists of cotton and woolen textiles. The British textile industry. Though Great Britain produces such fine cotton and woolen goods, it gets most of its raw cotton from the United States and imports a large part of its wool. How, then, do we explain its leadership in the textile industry? One reason is the ad- vantage of an early start. Others are the supplies of fuel and the climate. Lancaster County (Lancashire), which is the leading cotton manufacturing district, not only has the advantage of coal fields, but faces the Irish Sea, whence the prevailing west wind brings moist air that favors the spinning of cotton. Manchester, the chief cotton cen- ter, is so famous that everywhere in the commercial world the term * Manchester goods ” means ‘cotton goods.” Farther east the cities of Bradford and Leeds, near a sheep-raising district with coal deposits beneath, are the centers of the woolen industry. British iron and steel centers. Great Britain normally stands next to the United States and Germany in the production of iron and steel goods. Near Birmingham, midway between Liverpool and London.

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