Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth of the population, the greater part of which is not English. That is a great morsel for a union of countries in which, for example, Finland and Switzerland and Greece are to have in some respects an equal status with Great Britain. Furthermore, the question of foreign trade and tariffs is one in which the interests of Great Britain have for the last hundred years been very different from those of the other countries...
...Trade...
...still hears a good deal, though gratifyingly less, as time goes on, about the hostility of Europe to the United States. It is even intimated from time to time that this alleged hostility affects trade between the two continents. If this were true, we would recognize this bad feeling in the reduction of the sale of American wares, which are readily identified as such by markings and general appearances--our motor cars, safety razors, electrical devices, typewriters and similar finished manufactures which, sold as they are under trade names, are conspicuously American. Has Europe allowed her supposed enmity to limit...
Trends in world trade during the past four years and particularly the past year and a half prove that there has been no falling off in European demands for these commodities. In fact there has been a decided expansion. Ten of these general commodities, of the type indicated, were sold to Europe in 1913 to the total of some $72,000,000 worth. Last year the value was $293,000,000--an increase in sixteen years of more than 300 per cent. Even though a part (perhaps 60 per cent) is chargeable to price increases, there is obviously a greater...
...matter what may be the form under which the future "United States of Europe" emerges--if it does materialize--the United States of America will al-ways remain a decisive factor in Europe's trade, as a supplier of manufactured goods and as a source of capital for the development of her resources. The older continent for her part will no doubt continue to be the most profitable market for our wares...