Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Trade-10% increase in exports ; 5% increase in imports...
...Ford is right in his historicity but not in his reasoning. English is becoming the dominant language of trade because English-speaking people have developed industrially and commercially, not because English is a better or more forceful language than any other. Arabic, for example, is a far more flexible language than English, but the Arabs have not an industrial development that forces their language to include scientific terms...
Meantime, a meeting of trade-union executives was held in London. Two important decisions were made...
...summer season is now at hand when production and trade slacken, and when the farmer begins to see where he will probably come out with his autumn harvests. During the past week, attention has thus naturally centred on crops. In general, the outlook is unusually good...
...domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival of her export trade, in which cotton fabrics formerly composed a tremendously important item. With cheaper and more abundant U. S. raw cotton, cheaper cotton textiles are now likely, attended by increased consumption and an expanding market...