Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seesaw race between the U. S. and Germany for the Brazilian market, Germany was leading last week. Score: Germany, $49,823,075 or 22.16% of Brazil's 1938 imports...
...explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because she wants no eastern pushing across the Balkan Peninsula into...
...elected a director of the road. For the past nine years he has been Vice President in charge of Finance and Corporate Relations. Today, white-haired Albert County, 67, may well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...
...could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that PWAdministrator Harold Ickes was the only judge of the fairness of the utilities' offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price or we duplicate.' . . . This is one of the most cruel, brutal, and unAmerican doctrines ever adopted...
...influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during the war means that even more will have to be introduced after the war is over. It is quite certain that it cannot be supplied by Japan...