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...products exported and not imported, and are on the books only to throw dust in the farmers' eyes, the chief center of attack on the new tariff is in the international complications arising from it. With Europe in debt to the United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly to continue to drain Europe of gold is a policy that more resembles...
Said Lord d'Abernon sonorously: "The fact belongs to history that England was the first foreign country to manifest sympathy for Argentina and to offer material help." Then, while his Jockey Club audience occasionally cheered, the Viscount recalled that Britain has nearly two billion dollars invested in Argentina, mostly in railways and cattle. Humorously he noted that Argentina's Prize Bull of 1929 had just been bought at auction in Buenos Aires by the British Bovril (Beef Extract) Co. (slogan: BOVRIL puts BEEF into YOU!). "It seems to me," concluded Viscount d'Abernon, "that the reciprocal friendship uniting our countries...
...original States and Texas. Free land was the great natural resource upon which the new country was built. For generations it served as a prime political issue. In 1836 Henry Clay, then a U. S. Senator from Kentucky, pointed with pride to "the prodigious sum of one billion and eighty million acres" of public domain (about one-half the present size of the U. S.). Prophetically he exclaimed: "Long after we shall cease to be agitated by the Tariff, the public lands will remain a subject of deep and enduring interest...
Proud of his success thus far, confident that he can jam the whole Five Year Program through, Dictator Stalin announced last week that he would add another billion dollars to Russia's budget for 1930. thus raising the Soviet Government's total expenditure to five billion dollars per annum (13% more than is spent by the U. S. Government). Further, the area of land under cultivation is to be increased by 8%, and most startling of all, Russian industrial production is to be raised...
...relative importance to the corn belt than the recent stupendous bank mergers in Manhattan, Chicago or San Francisco have to their districts. It means that small metropoles-and Des Moines is typical of several-are moving against dependence upon the great financial centres. It means too that the half-billion and billion-dollar banks must look increasingly to the country's greater corporations and to foreign commerce for their business. The banks of smaller cities are tending to look after their regional affairs...