Word: buying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...
...lower, 27.7% for no change. The percentage who dont know is 35.7% among big manufacturers, 20.8% among small manufacturers (only 14.9% among small retailers)-thus indicating that those most concerned with tariffs have gradually opened their minds to and begun to accept the idea that it pays to buy from foreigners in order to sell to foreigners...
...made an alliance with Japan's enemy, Russia, grinning Director Suejiro Ogawa of the Chicago bureau decided the time had come to get busy. In the New York Journal of Commerce he ran a full-page advertisement: "Japan is America's Third Largest Customer ... if America would buy more Japanese goods United States exports to Japan could be expanded to even larger proportions...
...Bolivia, which did a $28,956,000 trade with Britain in 1937 (1938 figures unavailable), looked for a U. S. market for her hides, horns, cocoa in order to build up a credit balance to buy U. S. goods...
...their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill the gap. But in the long run another answer to the problem must be found and the only permanent answer is that the U. S. must buy more Latin American goods...