Statistical manual

Kapitalismus und Sozialismus

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Identifikator:: 1831009897

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222160

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Statistical manual

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: New York Real Estate Securities Exchange

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: 123 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: 43 Exchange Place Building (New York City)

Collection:: Economics Books

192 INTERNATIONAL TRADE Ma "3 Ee [1 Penis competition from the foreigners; hence there has been no attempt to levy particularly high duties. The explanation of the difference between the two groups is not far to seek. Table cutlery, and more especially table knives, are made in great quantities of a single pattern. Automatic machinery, interchangeable parts, standard patterns, mass production — here the Americans can outstrip the foreigners. Pocket knives, on the other hand, are little standardized. There is a bewildering variety of patterns; com- paratively small numbers of any one can be put on the market. In the same class belong carving knives. The Sheffield manufacturer of these (a petty producer compared to the American table-knife concern) can hold his own in the American market even in face of high duties; so can the German “manufacturer,” who is in the main a middleman conducting an industry still in the stage of the putting-out system. Hence it is that carving knives, like pocket knives and unlike table knives, continue to be imported in face of high duties. The same trend runs thru the American textile industries. The textile industries give scope for the special American aptitudes in varying degree, the variations depending mainly on the nature of the raw materials used. Where the material is homogeneous and is adapted to treatment by machinery, the Americans can manu- facture to advantage. Where it is uneven and does not lend itself readily to rapid and continuous machine operations, they manu- facture to less advantage; and then they clamor most loudly for protection. Cotton and the cotton industry belong in the former class; wool and silk, with their respective manufactures, belong in the second. [ will not detain the reader with any prolonged account of the development of the textile industries or with any consideration of the special problems which they present — problems less easy of solution on any one line of explanation than is the case with agricultural products or iron and steel manufactures. It is well known that the cotton manufacture is the oldest and strongest of the textiles, and that its main body stands independent of pro-

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