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

- fa Modern Business Geography GERMANY'S SPECIAL MANUFACTURES Germany manufactures great quantities of iron and steel products, cotton, woolen, and silk goods, chemicals, and beet sugar. The iron and steel products are made near the coal mines that stretch across south central Germany from west to east. Essen on the Ruhr, near the Rhine, is the center of a great iron and steel district. It is the home of the vast Krupp steel works, which make all kinds of steel products for railroads, ships, engines, and mills, and were formerly famed as the greatest munitions plant in the world. This same district supplies coal for leading textile centers — for making silk at Crefeld, woolen goods at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), woolen, cotton, and linen goods at Elberfeld and Barmen. Steel ships are built at the ports of Stettin and Kiel on the Baltic, and at Ham- burg on the River Elbe. Why Germany developed her chemical manufactures. Germany is famous for her skill in applying the science learned in schools and universities to the work of manufacturing. Before the World War, Germany was far ahead of any other country in the chemical indus- tries. This happened partly because numerous chemists who had been trained in the universities were employed to discover methods of cheaply producing the chemicals needed for such things as dyes, fer- tilizers, drugs, perfumes, and artificial camphor. For instance, Ger- man chemists have produced dyes of hundreds of hues out of tar that was formerly wasted. This same tar supplies carbolic acid and many drugs. The chemical plants are located chiefly at Stassfurt in central Germany, which lies over a bed of * potash salts.” Elberfeld and Barmen, near the western coal mines, and Frankfurt and Mannheim, in the upper Rhine valley, are also great chemical centers. One of the greatest advantages that Germany has derived from her chemists is the ability to extract sugar from beets at low cost. Her scientific farmer has done his part by developing sugar beets that con- tain twice the amount of sugar formerly obtained from the vegetable. As a result, Germany before the war manufactured more sugar than any other country. Beet sugar is manufactured in hundreds of fac- tories scattered over northern Germany, where the soil and climate permit sugar beets to grow profitably. After harvesting the beets, many farmers become workers in the factories. Germany supplies all the sugar that she needs herself and has great quantities of sugar for export.

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