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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Index 9341 Desert, of South America 146; railroad | building in 181; of the Sahara 230, 233 Detroit (Michigan) 78, 168, 219, 221, 240, 253, 254, 330 Detroit River 193 Diamonds 231, 270, 290 Dogs, and sheep-killing 100 Donkeys, used in transportation 163, 165 Drugs, chemicals for 268 Duluth (Minnesota) 180, 181,* 193, 194, 206, 220, 256, 257, 334 Dundee (Scotland) 267 Durban (Natal) 228, 231 Dutch East Indies, commerce 270, 308; primary products 312, 313; area and pop- ulation 328. See also East Indies Dutch Guiana 303, 329, 336 Dyeing, of cotton 14; of silk 251* Dves. manufacture of 15. 268 ‘ransportation 164, 165; steamships 166; motor vehicles 167; roads, in southeast- arn part 170; railways 183, 266*; steam- ship lines from 191; use of rivers and :anals 195,196, 197, 266* ; manufacturing 264-271*; transportation facilities 266,* 281; problem: what Europe does for a living 278-283*; food products 278; raw materials 279; minerals 279; foreign ommerce 281; cities 282, 318; value »f exports to United States 294; imports 295, 323; as market 299-301; trade with south America 301; area and population of chief countries and colonies 329 <xplosives, use of nitrates for 150 xports, from United States, of wheat 55; of setroleum 129; value of, at principal ports f United States 221; from Africa 230, 231; from Germany, of beet sugar 268; tom United States, of farm machinery ‘or Australia 272; from Great Britain, f textiles and farm machinery 277; from Jnited States 295; to Germany 300; rom leading countries to United States 308; from western Europe 310; from South America 336 Earthenware 271 East Indies, rice and millet 41; tin 120, 275; petroleum 130*; exports to Hol- land 270; rubber 275; primary products 312, 313 Ecuador, climate 144, 145; cacao 150, 289; area and population 329; exports 336 Edmonton (Alberta) 225 Zgypt, cotton 7,* 8, 275, 300; corn 41; rice 50*; wheat harvest 53; sugar cane 71; railway mileage 183; foreign commerce 308; area and population 328 Elberfeld (Germany) 268 Electric railways 184 Electrical industries 252 Elephants 162,* 163 Embroideries 270, 290 England, invention of spinning and weaving machinery 14; cotton manufacturing 17, 20; wheat harvest in 53; consumption of cereals and meat 56; potatoes 63; apples 76; smelting of iron ore 117; coal 123, 127; roads 170; merchant marine 191; manufacturing 211; area and population 329. See also Great Britain Erie Barge Canal 193, 196,* 197, 220 Erie Canal 196,* 197 Erie (Pennsylvania) 194, 334 Erie Railroad 210 Essen (Germany) 126, 237, 268, 333 Europe, intensive cultivation in 29; size 29*; wheat 43, 53, 54%; corn 49; oats 51*; rye 58*; barley 59*; vegetables 61; pota- toes 62, 67; sugar beets 70; fruits 76, 78, 79, 80, 81*; dairy products 87, 95; cattle B9,* 90, 91, 95*; swine 93; zinc 112, 121; iron 114; tin 120; forest conservation 139. 1140. 143: lumber 140. 143: animal Factories, cotton 17*; man power in 161; for airplanes 169. See also Manufacturing “airfield (Ohio) 169* Falkland Islands 93 Fall River (Massachusetts) 10, 15, 17. 18, 242, 334 Farming, of cotton 2-8*; in United States 27-39%; methods 26,* 45,* 46,* 51,* 57*; mportance 27; where possible 30,* 31%; tinds of 31, 61, 280*; farming population 12, 33; soil 33; government aid 31, 38, 11; in Alaska 36*; in Italy 38*; in Ohio '8; cereals 40-60*; vegetables 61-67*; mgar 68-73%; fruit 71-82%; animal 83- 101*; use of man power in 160; of horses 161; in Canada 225. 227*: in Holland 269 “arms, number in the United States 47 Faeroe Islands 107 “eed, cotton-seed products used for 23, 96; sugar beet pulp 70; hay, corn, oats 83; and swine raising 100; forage crops 101* <ernandina (Florida) 136 Fertilizers, nitrates 150. 289, 290; chemical 268 Fez (Morocco) 228, 233 Tibers, imports of, into United States 293. See also Cotton, Flax, Silk, Sisal, Wool Finland 281, 308, 329 Fire, protection of forests from 142 Fire-pots, in fruit orchards 77 Fireworks. potash used for 290

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