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

Manufacturing Outside the United States 273 Fic. 173. Raw silk is produced only (1) where the mulberry tree will flourish, (2) where there are many patient workers with deft fingers, and (3) where labor is cheap. Japan produces almost 50 per cent of the world supply of raw silk ; China about 26 per cent of it; and Italy a little more than 10 per cent. The small remainder comes chiefly from southern France and Spain. In Japan factories have been established for unwinding the cocoons and spinning the thread; but a, great deal of the spinning is still done bv hand, as shown here. The handmade articles of China take the form of beautiful woven silks and other textiles, delicate carvings in wood and ivory, and also of commoner articles such as bamboo goods, straw matting, and the fire crackers which almost every American boy and girl formerly set off on the Fourth of July. With the exception of ivory, the raw ma- terials of most of these handmade goods are easily produced close to the home of the workers, and the finished products are so small or so light that they can be transported long distances with little expense. World commerce draws from India such handmade goods as cash- mere shawls, print cloths, metal ware like Benares brass, and carvings in ivory and wood. Especially interesting are the elephants carved in ivory, some as small as one’s finger nail, yet so delicately carved as to show every feature and wrinkle. Japan, like China, still furnishes handmade cloths, mattings, and carvings. Its strong, thin, handmade paper is used in place of leather, nil-cloth, and glass; and its handmade porcelain and lacquered and

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