Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler himself turned the first spadeful of dirt for the Autobahnen in 1933. By last year's end, 1,903 miles of the road system had been completed. Neither
Unless Herr Hitler changes his policy this will be necessarily true, for while canals and airways have prospered under the Nazis, along with highways, railroads have gone to pot. German State Railways, once the snappiest system in Europe, is no longer able to handle its traffic...
...Since Hitler began persecuting Jews and Japanese began killing Chinese, millions of peaceful people have been fighting the losers' battles with boycotts. Fortnight ago U. S. Department of Commerce breakdowns of 1938 foreign trade figures measured the boycotts' success. Last week, to stimulate revival of trade, Germany set up a German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast in San Francisco; and in Chicago the German Consul General for the Midwest revealed he was trying to barter German machinery, harmonicas, barbed wire for several hundred thousand tons of U. S. lard...
...Department of Commerce figures showed that U. S. imports from Germany had dropped from $78,100,000 in 1933 (Hitler's Year One) to $64,500,000 last year, a fall of 17%. During the same period imports from Belgium rose 44%, from Norway 16%, from the United Kingdom 6%. Last year (first full year of the war in China) U. S. imports from Japan fell from...
...Pacific Coast pointed out that German purchases of U. S. dried prunes and apricots had dwindled from 33% of the total exported in 1929 to 8.8% in 1937. And the lard dickerings demonstrated how U. S. farmers are suffering from the drop in German trade. In pre-Hitler years Germany often bought as much as 30%, of U. S. lard exports; last year Germany bought only 7%-and last week U. S. loose lard was at the lowest price in over four years...