Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japan. Ex-Minister of Finance Junnosuuke Inouye said: "Japan understands the true meaning of Bolshevism, and further delay in establishing trade and diplomatic relations will be harmful." The Mainkhi of Osaka said: "Russia has now gained a strategic advantage over Japan owing to the recognition accorded her by Britain. . . We ought to be very attentive to the changing situation in Europe." The Tokyo Asahi said: "Woe to our statesmen who have not the keen insight to discern the trend of the times. It is a great pity the State ministers have not the courage to carry out their own convictions...
...recognition of the Soviet Government by the Labor Administration of Great Britain has been reflected in the U. S. by a revival of proposals for future trade with Russia. Hitherto Russia's purchases of American cotton have been made via Bremen through German middlemen. This made American goods more costly to Russia, and limited her credits here. Now the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, Inc. - a Manhattan agency of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate of Moscow-has been set up to deal directly with American exporters, and obtain credit directly from New York banks. In cotton this new arrangement makes...
...election of William G. Marvin, Manhattan lawyer, as President of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce has also called public attention to that body. Its board is composed of American bankers, manufacturers, lawyers. The Committee on Russian Trade, of which Mr. Marvin is chairman, will be amalgamated with the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, and its facilities taken over by the Chamber...
...Chamber has secured the support of "many important business and banking elements in the U. S. interested in trading with Russia," and "earnestly solicits the cooperation and support of all American busi- ness interests who desire the speedy reconstruction of American-Russian trade without political prejudice or partisanship...
...distribution of petroleum. It is always either a feast or famine. Until only a few weeks ago, the famine element seemed uppermost; overproduction had created a great surplus of crude oil for the oil companies to carry, prices were declining precipitously, and disaster was frankly anticipated by the trade. But meanwhile the consumption of crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads not only burn oil in their large locomotives, but are taking up running motor...