Word: mays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trade Scouts. To open up new commercial fields abroad in which the Dollar may grow and thrive is the duty of the Department of Commerce's trade scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour...
...whole situation has been built up on the assumption that there is nothing illegitimate in the use of war as an instrument of national policy, and as a necessary corollary that position and the rights of neutrals are entirely independent of the circumstances of any war which may be in progress...
...Christmas Tale" by David Garrick may also be seen. This is a first edition and is written to be played in the Theater-royal in Drury-Lane. There are several pages of water color illustrations by Randolph Caldecotte in the same case...
...common figures published by the bureau may be used by business men in two ways: (1) to judge the quality of the operating performances of individual firms, and (2) to set standards to be used in planning future operations. Directions for using these common figures are given in the bulletin...
...year in that fair isle of liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which may go to prove that there is a Santa Claus...