Investment, an exact science

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Identifikator:: 865521182

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48767

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lowenfeld, Henry

Title:: Investment, an exact science

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The Financial Review of Reviews

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 160 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII - The defects of the british trustee acts

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162 Modern Business Geography Fig. 120. An elephant piling teak logs at Rangoon. This “animal derrick” brings both strength and intelligence to the task. docks in Yokohama crowds of jinrikisha men try to persuade the pas- sengers to jump into their little two-wheeled carts and be carried to the hotel. At Foochow coolies with bare legs and arms come swing- ing down the narrow streets to leave at great warehouses the bales of tea which they have brought scores of miles on their backs. At Madras, in India, although jinrikishas are fewer than in J apan and not so comfortable, rough carts for carrying freight are more nu- merous. In western Asia, one of the commonest sights is the kamal with a pad on his back. He may be carrying anything from a goatskin full of water to a load of melons or earthen water pots. In the New World, in the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala, one sees hundreds of men and women running at a little jog trot with great baskets of fruit and vegetables on their heads, or with loads on their backs steadied by slings that pass over the forehead. Thus, in the backward parts of the world, there are almost countless ways in which man does the work of transportation. Animals in mountainous or backward countries. In regions like Mexico, Peru, and Morocco, and even among some of our own moun- tains, horses or other pack animals transport goods almost everywhere. In advanced and well populated regions, however, horses are used only to carry goods short distances. They are an expensive means of

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