This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...of operations is better realized when one knows that the stock pens and packing plants occupy a space a mile in length and half a mile in width. Risks are reduced.--As the scale of their operations expanded, the packers found that the larger business unit enabled them to carry more readily some of the risks of modern ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...of operations is better realized when one knows that the stock pens and packing plants occupy a space a mile in length and half a mile in width. Risks are reduced.--As the scale of their operations expanded, the packers found that the larger business unit enabled them to carry more readily some of the risks of modern business enterprise. By the establishment of branch plants in many localities and even in foreign countries, as in South America, they tapped so many sources of supply of raw materials that unfavorable conditions in some localities could not disrupt their business in the way they could that of a smaller producer; by dealing in a tremendous range of products they were freed from such serious risks of unfavorable seasons as are borne by the dealer in a single commodity; by occupying so large a proportion of the field in which they operated they were able to secure more stable prices, both in buying and in selling than can the small producer; by having agencies in so many communities and by dealing in so many products they were better able to tide themselves over shifts in demand than is the small-scale operator in a single commodity, and for that matter their tremendous advertising power enabled them to control these shifts to a considerable extent; by having a business of such magnitude that they could conduct scientific experimentation, they lessened the risk of their being displaced by some new method in the hands of a competitor; by the integration of many processes and plants, each single step was relieved of anxiety concerning the source of its raw material and the disposal of its finished product--a state of affairs quite different from that experienced by the small-scale, isolated producer. By having hundreds of agencies over the whole wo...
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Very good. VG-Light brown cloth with black titles, vignette on FC. corners bumped. Edges somewhat worn. Endpapers toned. Pencil writing on FFEP, inside BC, otherwise clean. No DJ. 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
