Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's export markets-is no reason why business and commerce should not go ahead in both countries as normally as possible. Together they need as much foreign exchange as they can get. Working together they can help each other keep their places in the sun of world trade...
...More Voice raised last week on the subject of war economy was that of Benito Mussolini (whose country is rapidly becoming a clearing house for the foreign trade of other neutrals, even as remote as Norway and Sweden). Boomed Benito...
...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
Fifteen years after Wilhelmina ascended the throne World War I began. The British blockade induced a grave food shortage. Trade was completely disrupted and the country was overrun with refugees. Dutch ships were sunk and by 1918 what ships still floated abroad had been seized by the Allies. Only bright spots on The Netherlands' horizon were that: 1) although the Germans considered invading the country, they eventually decided against it, partly because the Dutch had effectively remodeled their land defenses, partly because Germany, already at the Belgian Channel ports, had money and used it to buy supplies in neutral...
...similar group in the world. In 1935, of 85,000 Europeans earning a living in the East Indies, some 64,000 were taxed on incomes of more than $4,500 a year; 22,500 between $20,000 and $60,000 a year. But more significant was what this trade did to The Netherlands. Dutch investments in the East Indies were valued at $1,158,000,000. And today one-sixth of The Netherlands' population is dependent upon the colonial trade and but for it The Netherlands would probably have a lot more than 400,000 unemployed...