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Presently American Trader radioed that Coulmore was perfectly safe, but did not explain the scare. Germany called it a scurvy British trick...
...Fence. This shipping compromise was Horse Trader Pittman's second gift horse of the week. Gift Horse I was the abandonment of the 90-day credit clause for a policy of strict cash-on-the-barrelhead. Sly Mr. Pittman had timed his offerings nicely: wavering Senators popped off the fence in jigtime. Fence-perched Gillette of Iowa went over to the Administration side; so did Kentucky's new Junior Senator Chandler and Illinois' Lucas...
...Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
...double its exports to Latin America. The only competitor still free to bid against the U. S. for the market is Japan, and the U. S. has a big lead on her. For not only has the U. S. long since entrenched itself as the No. 1 Latin American trader, but Cordell Hull's Good Neighbor policy and reciprocal trade agreements have begun to persuade Latin America to believe that Dollar Diplomacy is dead...
...opening in the chemical business, the U. S. could particularly thank its lucky star. World War I boosted the U. S. permanently to the position of chief trader with Latin America, but in chemicals Germany was still chemistry's Big Store, with plenty of exclusive products, and when the war had ended it hopped right back to the top of the market. But World War I left the U. S. in possession, through seizure, of certain of Germany's most prized secret chemical processes, which went to the U. S. industry. Today it is possible to take Germany...