Word: buying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appropriated $2,500 to buy an oil portrait of Herbert Hoover to hang in the White House...
...Sweden, trade hummed; there was a mad rush to get rich in war industries and in shipping. But the industrial population, which depended on imported foodstuffs, found their wages inadequate to buy meat, which rose in price as the Government rationed it. Malnutrition and influenza contributed to raising the death rate in Sweden by a third in 1918-19. Norway did well with fish and lumber to export to the belligerents. Norwegian steamship lines cashed in, paying big dividends and purchasing about a million tons of new shipping from the U. S. as German mines and submarines sent 829 Norwegian...
Italy, while her politicians coyly debated which side to join, did not suffer greatly in 1914 and 1915 except from the rising cost of food. In Rumania and Bulgaria peasants suffered less than townspeople in the first years of the War as both groups of belligerents tried to buy foodstuffs, but both governments had finally to fix prices...
Rumania, her trade reduced to a mere exchange of goods with the Central Powers by the closing of the Dardanelles, approached crisis before she threw in her lot with the Allies. The peasants-a great majority of the population in each country-unable to buy industrial goods, finally ceased to produce crops for the market, practically fell back on subsistence farming...
American Offstanders. All the Latin American nations* had their manufactured imports from Europe reduced to a small fraction by the exigencies of war, and were forced to buy from the U. S. How this affected them depended on what they had to export...