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...history of India since 1813 has been a story of competition between handicraft and manufacturing. Indian communities were economically balanced between agriculture and handicraft, sweezy pointed out. But production of India's excellent, handmade goods has been ruined by imports, throwing more people into agriculture and thus disrupting the economic balance...
...Modern industry, relatively unknown in this part of prewar China, has been successfully introduced under government leadership and encouragement. State ownership and operation of the heavy industries, private capitalism with government regulation for the light industries, and cooperation for small-scale, decentralized, handicraft industries, and agriculture-all of which develop rapidly in the course of war-promise to give now forms of economic organization that may be further developed in a post-war China...
...National Retail Dry Goods Association, to talk sales executives and department-store heads all over the U.S. into advertising, displaying and buying U.S. art. At 1,000 sales exhibitions, scattered through 48 States, 30,000 U.S. artists exhibited approximately 130,000 paintings, drawings, etchings, sculptures, bits of handicraft...
Salesman Watson and his friends, aware that most of last year's sales in Art Week were of works costing not over $25, urged low prices. And this year, as last, shoppers snapped up $5 sketches, etchings and handicraft doodads at 25? to $1, raised eyebrows at $2,000 price tags...
...novelty, and handicraft industries had died of international boycott...