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Distribution counted as an export trade — sized, and bounded

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1912–1919 and the modern book · BOUNDARY

Distribution counts as an export trade only where the network abroad is the business, and for this county the verifiable sizing is the flagship's: Studebaker's New York export office (opened 1912), its London house (through which a foreign government bought hundreds of cars), its photographed houses of foreign dealers (1918), and its 37 percent of all U.S. cars sent abroad on the trade account for the export-office era — a dealer-and-branch network abroad, sized by its share of a national flow, not by adjectives. AM General's modern distribution is counted in its own units at art-60-8: 250,000 Humvees operating in 50 countries (2017) is a supported-fleet network — parts, kits and training sold into fifty national fleets — and is printed there, not double-counted here. The pattern's tire line (warehouses and dealer networks abroad as a South Bend trade) was tested and not verified at firm strength from open sources: no South Bend tire firm's foreign warehouse count is asserted; settler, the firm records of the county's tire distributors and the trade press. Osceola's distribution trade is the depot's — domestic rail distribution, banked — and no foreign warehouse, dealer or network has ever been seated in the town.

Sources: Erskine (1919) (foreign dealers' houses; London house); Farm Collector (2002) (1912 export office; 37% of U.S. car exports); Military Times (2017) (250,000 Humvees, 50 countries); searches stated in the article.

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Source: Distribution counted as an export trade — sized, and bounded, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/exports/distribution-counted-as-an-export-trade-sized-and-bounded/