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 four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

238 Modern Business Geography Brown Brothers F1a. 179. The city of Paris represents the largest kind of market. The total population is large, and the purchasing power of the average individual is high. Both domestic and foreign roods and products of hich cost are in seneral use. Our natural wealth, however, like that of Europe, is being used up rapidly. The country must carefully plan for a future when its buying power, and hence its value as a market, will depend more upon the efforts of the people than upon vast natural riches. Why the United States supplies most of its own needs. One of the most noteworthy differences between the United States and the other populous and highly progressive countries is that the United States has a far larger area than any of the others and hence a much greater vari- ety of products. China rivals the United States in resources and in the variety of its climate, but its people are not progressive. Russia is even more extensive, but is largely undeveloped. Great Britain rivals the United States in progressiveness, but its resources are relatively lim- ited and its climate almost the same in all parts. Because of the great variety of the climate and resources of the United States, this country is capable of supplying practically all its own needs. For example, the northern part of the Mississippi valley is a great grain region; the Pacific states supply fruit, the southern states cotton, the Rocky Mountain states live stock, wool, and many metals; the Lake Su- perior region provides iron; Texas furnishes petroleum: Pennsyl-

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