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 267 FRANCE — THE COUNTRY OF ARTISTIC MANUFACTURE France is noted for producing goods of unusually fine quality. The people of France have been artistic for centuries; the government and other organizations have encouraged art. This artistic taste shows itself in delicate and elegant manufactured products, such as expen- sive silks and velvets, fine cottons with original designs, exquisite laces, fine porcelain ware, beautiful gowns and robes, costly hats and dainty gloves. Paris is especially noted for the articles of luxury that are in de- mand in cities of great wealth. These articles include fancy clothing, jewelry, perfumes, costly furniture, and artificial flowers and feathers. In spite of the efforts of rival cities like New York, Paris gowns and Paris styles are still the favorites. As a great railroad center the city has large establishments for repairing cars and engines. The chief advantage of industrial Paris is its location in the center of a great plain, which allows railroads and canals to be built in almost every direction. The Seine has been canalized so that Paris is now a port for small vessels. But we must not think of Paris chiefly as an industrial center; it is far more noted as a center of art, society, politics, and education. Marseilles, on a fine Mediterranean harbor near the mouth of the Rhone, may be compared with New Orleans, since its southern lo- cation causes its raw materials to be largely vegetable products other than the staple cereals and cottons. It refines the oil pressed from the olives grown not far away, and from great quantities of peanuts, coco- nuts, and other oil-seeds brought from the Orient. Soap is made from some of the oil, and macaroni from wheat imported from Italy. Lyons is the chief silk manufacturing city in the world. The early introduction of mulberry trees and silkworms in the Rhone valley started the silk industry at Lyons. Its location in the upper Rhone valley, near coal mines, has favored its growth. In addition to Paris, Marseilles, and Lyons, France has many minor manufacturing centers in all parts of the country. In the northeast the presence of coal and iron have made Nancy and Verdun great steel centers; Lille and Roubaix in the north long ago got a start as woolen cities because of the sheep in the surrounding country; while Rouen on the Seine is naturally the leading cotton center because of its position in relation to America and to moist winds from the ocean. For marketing her manufactures, France has the great advantage of both Atlantic and Mediterranean ports.

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