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Customers. Best U. S. customer is Canada, which buys more goods from the U. S. and sells more to the U. S. than any other country. During 1928, Canada went into first place as best buyer of U. S. goods, passing the United Kingdom. The two together account for about one-third of all U. S. exports. Much of the grain exported to Canada is actually en route to the British Isles, however, which leaves Canada's leadership somewhat unstable. Exports to South America showed a general increase, Argentine buying almost 10% more U. S. merchandise in 1928 than...
Canada 916.2 United Kingdom 847.3 Germany 467.2 Japan 288.1 France 240.7 Argentina 178.9 China 165.2 Italy 162.1 Netherlands 142.3 Australia 141.3 Imports. Canada, largest purchaser of U. S. goods, was also the country for whose merchandise the most U. S. dollars were spent. Not the British Isles, however, but Japan attracted the next largest U. S. expenditure. Of the three countries; however, only imports from Canada showed an increase. Decline in silk prices accounted for the Japanese shrinkage, decline in tin prices for the British. Paper (newsprint) and copper were the Canadian products that chiefly swelled Canada's income...
...Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. . . ." Moreover, "it was not until the dawn of the 20th century of the Christian era that War really began to enter into its kingdom. j> "The War stopped as suddenly and as universally as it had begun. ... In a hundred laboratories, in a thousand arsenals, factories, and bureaux, men pulled themselves up with a jerk, turned from the task in which they had been absorbed. Their projects were put aside unfinished, unexecuted; but their knowledge...
...palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently, however, Il Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines...
...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...