Word: roorbach
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That the interest aroused throughout this country in foreign trade is clearly indicated by the unusually large number of men who this year have enrolled in courses dealing with international commercial problems offered in the Graduate School of Business Administration, is the opinion of Professor George B. Roorbach, as expressed in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Professor Roorbach has come to the University to occupy the chair of Foreign Trade recently established in the Business School...
...foreign trade in which national trade policies, methods and developments will be considered; and lectures have also been arranged on trade conditions in Europe, South America and the Far East. Commerce with the Orient is becoming increasingly important and offers a wide field for enterprising business firms, said Professor Roorbach...
...United States is a young country whose energies have been devoted quite rightly to expansion and development within its own borders," continued Professor Roorbach. "American industry has been occupied with supplying American demand. There has been little need to compete with foreign markets. Europe has sought our raw materials, and our manufactured goods for export have been limited. Hence our large export trade has grown without effort on our part. Now that manufactured goods are being produced in such large quantities, we must seek markets in competition with other manufacturing nations...
Professor Roorbach who was graduate of Colgate University in 1903, is an expert on commercial conditions throughout the world. He was for seven years a professor of commercial geography at the University of Pennsylvania, leaving his position in 1915 to travel on a commission in South America for the Carnegie Endowment, for the purpose of making an exhaustive study of trade conditions...
During the war Professor Roorbach was associated with former Dean E. F. Gay in work on the U. S. Shipping Board. Since the armistice, as chairman of the Governmental Committee on the Revision and Classification of Trade Statitics, he has been engaged in the tremendous task of devising a new system of trade statistics for the United States of the American business...