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

Foreign Countries and World Markets 303 Ellsworth Huntington Fig. 181. This market in western China represents the earliest kind of market place, which is merely an open space where goods for sale may be set out on the ground or on low benches. Most of the vendors sell what thev themselves have produced or have helped to produce the Guianas constitutes a region where practically all the manufac- tured goods must be imported from other continents. Nevertheless, although there are fine modern cities like Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro with hundreds of thousands of highly civilized people, the majority of the 75,000,000 South Americans are small consumers. The best South American market is in the temperate regions of the south where Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, and other Europeans make up most of the population, and where the natives themselves are more energetic than elsewhere in the continent. The United States and the South American market. One would think that the United States, being advanced in manufacturing and near South America, would almost entirely supply the markets of that continent. In 1926 and 1927, however, which were normal years, we supplied less than one fourth of the nearly two billion dollars’ worth of goods imported by all the South American countries. This was less than half as much as we sent to Great Britain alone. Nevertheless, it was a great improvement over 1907, when we supplied only one tenth of the imports of the countries of South America. During the

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