Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Sloan never exhibited a painting until he was 29, never sold one until he was 49. At 68, grey-haired but still impetuous, Artist Sloan now & then manages to sell "some of the etchings and a few paintings made 20 years ago."*Though his fame is surpassed by few U. S. painters, he has had to support himself by teaching and illustrating. Last week he told of his career in an autobiographical critique of painting.* Gist of his Gist of Art: "That I am alive, it hurts me to confess, does not prove that one can make a living...
...percentage who dont know is 35.7% among big manufacturers, 20.8% among small manufacturers (only 14.9% among small retailers)-thus indicating that those most concerned with tariffs have gradually opened their minds to and begun to accept the idea that it pays to buy from foreigners in order to sell to foreigners...
...indignant U. S. buyers had begun to boycott Japanese goods, and long before the rape of Nanking Japanese sellers began to feel the pinch. Since Japan had only a pipsqueak gold hoard (published reserve then $261,000,000, now close to zero), Japan's merchant salesmen had to sell more goods in the U. S. before Japan's buyers could get more money to spend in the U. S. market...
...Japanese office helpers had a service to offer. No buyer of materials, like Russia's Amtorg, the Japan Foreign Trade Bureau proposed to act as a two-way middleman: not only to help Japanese dealers find markets in the U. S., but to help U. S. merchants sell in Japan. This sounded good, and it was as good an excuse as any for Japan to get part of her old pal Germany's trade with...
...Latin Americans got the bulk of their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill the gap. But in the long run another answer to the problem must be found and the only permanent answer is that the U. S. must buy more...