Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At the Moulin Rouge in Paris, police quelled a riot of Frenchmen incensed at the discovery that they had paid good francs to see The Fox Movietone Follies? in English.
Diplomats. The field generals in this spread of economic empire are U. S. diplomatic representatives, whose prime task is to keep the gates of trade peacefully open. The 13 U. S. ambassadors and 28 U. S. ministers are aided by 457 U. S. consuls, trained to report trade opportunities, to...
Trade Scouts. To open up new commercial fields abroad in which the Dollar may grow and thrive is the duty of the Department of Commerce's trade scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet...
Cinema. An endless tape bound round and round the world is the U. S. cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the...
Raw Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14...