Word: egging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the difference in value of the goods exchanged has been made up in various 'invisible" ways. Among these are the permanent drain of money (purchasing power) in the form of remittances of immigrants to the "old folks at home", and the sums spent by American tourists for "services" (eg. transportation, hotels, etc.). But by far the largest item is that for "services" in carrying our goods abroad in foreign bottoms, for which we pay with good exported...