Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Sye's defense of China's withdrawal from the Geneva Opium Conference, recalls the fact that the world's drug trade still persists. Every nation has had its share of censure for the failure of that convention,--and the League more than its share. But who was really at fault is still hotly disputed, and Dr. Sye's remarks are a valuable contribution to that debate...
China suffers from the opium trade more than all other nations together, and she had everything to gain from the success of the conference. Her withdrawal was made only after desperate protest and when there was no prospect of establishing any understanding that would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies...
...Singapore base. To talk about this country's being provocative is sheer nonsense. Out of 352 warships building or projected, our contribution is 20. We have no lust of conquest; we have no desire for more territory; all we want is peace to protect and develop our trade and the territory we have got. No gesture is needed to show that Britain is a peaceable country...
...Atlantic City, met the American Brush Manufacturers' Association, discussed the toothbrush trade. In the U. S., 113,000,000 people purchase only 40,000,000 toothbrushes yearly, whereas at least 330,000,000 should be purchased if U. S. brushers would keep their mollars unyellowed, said the bristle sellers. The life of a toothbrush, they affirmed, is no more than three months. Stated their President, William Cortes: "We hear of many instances where the same toothbrush is used from 10 to 15 years...
...light of the remarkable Katanga copper properties in Africa. In two years, the latter expect to complete railroad lines to the coast, and will then be ready to flood the world's markets with the cheapest copper known. Meanwhile, the aluminum industry is furnishing the copper trade with stiff competition in several fields wherein the latter has previously had things much its own way. By weight, aluminum is much cheaper than copper, and is being used to an increasing extent in electric transmission, as a heavy saver of electric current...