Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convinced, after reports from the most reliable agents inside Russia, that the country wants a Tsar and a constitutional Government instead of Bolshevist absolutism. There always have been Tsars in Russia, and they always have been sort of spiritual fathers to their subjects. If I in turn gain the throne, it will be to forget my own personality and to work for the best interests of those who have suffered...
...Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether to destroy the letter. In the end, husband opens it and forgives everything very firmly. So the picture might just as well not have been...
...first conclusion reached after the disastrous crash of our overambitious plans for foreign trade in 1920, was that we had best stick to domestic trade and write our foreign efforts off as a War delusion. Yet the recent marked gain in both our imports and exports with Latin America goes to show that something substantial has survived the 1919-20 boom...
...total trade in Latin America in 1923 amounted to $1,743,919,000-$1,030,292, in imports and $693,627, in exports. The gain over 1922 in exports was 25%, that in imports...
...most striking gain in our exports to Latin America was in automobiles; other large items were naval stores, cotton hosiery, building lumber, petroleum, and its products, tin plate, wire nails, machines for sewing, printing, adding and harvesting. Motion picture films are also on the increase among our exports...