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...Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton belt the morning's desultory dickering petered out. In Britain the Liverpool Cotton Market had closed for the day, but traders would get the U. S. cotton news after the races and the cricket matches. In Bombay, Shanghai, Osaka the Orient's cotton men roused themselves from bed or stirred impatiently in club chairs. In Egypt, where the world's finest cotton is grown on the banks of the Nile, the cotton men of Alexandria waited dinner...
...boom sales of Japanese goods last autumn went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst...
...head of General Motors foreign sales and manufacturing, might rate as the most-traveled U. S. citizen. He once went from New York to London to Paris to Marseille to Port Said to Bombay to Madras to Singapore to Batavia to Singapore to Hongkong to Shanghai to Kobe to Osaka to Honolulu to San Francisco between Dec. 6 and March 5. In 1931 President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia conferred upon him the Order of the White Lion. He detests high tariffs, and while Herbert Hoover was President Mr. Mooney was urging the building up of Russian-U. S. trade. Last year...
Received by a Prince of Japan's Imperial House at Osaka, the Ethiopian chirped: "Ethiopia has many things to sell and also wants to buy from Japan...
...hard pressed Emperor. This representative, potent Daba Birrou, accompanied the Duke of Gloucester on H. R. H.'s sporting tour in Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). He ranks among the Emperor's closest friends, though he reached Japan entitled merely "Secretary to the Honorary Japanese Consul for Ethiopia in Osaka, Mr. Chuzaburo Yukawa...