Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. The growth of towns has decreased his play space but on the other hand the thickening craffic has given many ingenious little fellows a new game, that of spotting the makes of automobiles at great distances. Of late years however the imitative impulse on the part of the nation's body designers has reduced the sport to the most minute sort of scholasticism, and painstaking detail work is necessary in order to tell the newer makes apart at a thousand yards...
...main thesis of Dr. Klein's philosophy of trade is that of mutual interest. He shows how the prosperity of any one nation depends on the prosperity of its customers and its competitors, and endeavors to prove that the growth of American trade has not been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such...
However one feels about this still unsettled problem, the rest of the book cannot prove of interest. The questions of natural monopolies, restrictions of trade, and the new position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
...professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...
...chief failure so far in the Mexican system has been in the matter of local government. The people frequently regard the local officials as unfairly chosen, which results in a nation-wide political inertia...