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

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Manufacturing Qutside the United States 275 5. The bulk of the world’s supply of the following raw materials is produced in the regions named below. Tell which of the industrial countries of Europe would have an advantage in obtaining supplies of each kind be- cause of nearness, ease of transportation, or political relationship. Cotton . United States, India, Egypt Wool . Argentina, Russia, Australia, United States, Great Britain Raw silk japan, China, Italy Hides . ndia, United States, Russia, Argentina, Brazil Rubber Brazil, Belgian Congo, Indo-China, East Indies, Mexico Lead . United States, Spain, Germany Zinc . . United States, Germany Tin . . Malay Peninsula, Spain, East Indies C. How the great industrial countries obtain food supplies for their crowded populations. Great Britain produces only about 5 per cent of the wheat it consumes. Of the rest about 45 per cent comes from India, Australia, and Canada. Thus 50 per cent must be imported from regions not a part of the British Empire. From what regions does Figure 38 suggest that Great Britain may import wheat? Find out which of these countries are likely to take some of Britain’s surplus coal in exchange (Fig. 99). Why is it an advan- tage to British shipping to have this product to exchange for the foreign wheat ? In England, about 8 per cent of the workers are engaged in farming, and 60 per cent in manufacturing. In France, 40 per cent of the workers are engaged in farming, and 30 per cent in industries. Which country is more nearly self-supporting? Which could better endure a blockade of her coasts? Which is more dependent on a strong merchant marine? Which would suffer less if supplies of raw materials for manufacturing were cut off » Denmark, which is about half the size of Maine and has four times the population, produces a surplus of dairy products and beet sugar. She has no coal or iron. What neighboring industrial countries are likely to be her customers, and what kind of goods will she take in exchange? Little Holland may be said to run a great shop for selling sugar, coffee, hemp, vegetable oils, and rubber to more industrial countries. Where does she obtain the stock for her shop? How does it happen that she can specialize as a trader in tropical raw materials? Hungary consists mainly of a great grain-producing plain, one of the most fertile in the world. She has great milling establishments, but must im- port most of her manufactured goods. With what countries is she likely to exchange products? Refer to the transportation map of Europe, as well as to the manufacturing map. Czechoslovakia has both farming and manufacturing sections, but does not produce all the cereals and meat needed by the industrial centers. Which three of her neighbors are grain-producing countries? What other | > B )

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