Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, latest reports were that 25,000,000 barrels of Mexican oil are what friends of Rickett & Smith want to buy, below the world price of oil. And from this purchase the Mexican Government would get some of the quick cash it needs to keep going, make first compensation payments, and thus have a chance of getting the U. S. Treasury to resume the silver purchases from Mexico, canceled after the oil expropriation (TIME, April...
...where they will do the most good, by the French Government and its constituent parties. When moderates ran France, the leftwing press suffered lean days. Since 1936, roles have been reversed. The Popular Front press has licked the subsidy platter clean. The Left & Right papers have raised their price per copy three times in a year, but after nearly two years on a bread & water diet most of the conservative dailies are in the last stages of anemia...
Most talk of a Japanese crackup, thinks Author Price, is wishful thinking. According to his observation, the practical Chinese accept Japanese rule far more willingly than is supposed. In Manchuria, where he accompanied a punitive expedition against "bandits," he found a stable government and currency, intensive beginnings of mass education ("strongly pro-Manchukuo but anti-nobody"), regeneration of former "bandits" by means of seed loans, roads, vocational guidance...
After China, prophesies Price, comes inevitable Japanese domination of the Philippines, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, the African west coast. Having enumerated his reasons why Japan cannot lose and the U. S. cannot win in the Orient, Author Price suggests that the U. S. "retire gracefully." His alternative suggestion is that the U. S. hereafter do business exclusively with Japan...
...Author Price's main reason for urging closer co-operation with Japan is unusual: ... If time modifies the Nipponese crusade, making it less militant and more cultural, less the elevation of a world-Emperor and more the spread of a world accord, she can do a real service in helping to wipe out the petty nationalism that is today plaguing most nations, including Japan." Anti-Japanese readers will certainly believe that lively Author Price is suffering from a Rising Sunstroke...