Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining corners of the earth. Young Johnston drifted naturally into Colonial administration as a Vice Consul in the Cameroons. Thereafter he served all over Africa, from Nigeria in the West to Mount Kilimanjaro and Nyasaland in the East. With an incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with the delicate diplomatic questions raised by the colonial rivalry of the other European nations. He undertook exhausting expeditions, fought minor wars with Arab slave traders, assisted the missionaries to make the African world safe...
Business has not yet clearly and as a whole shown any tendency to improve. Conditions are still "spotty," with some industries going ahead in fine style, while others hang in the doldrums or even grow worse. The iron and steel trade, the oils and the sugars have shown the most improvement; automobile companies also feel themselves on firmer ground. But the fertilizers, the textile trade, and the leathers are still uncertainties. Yet there is little fear that the difficulties recently experienced in the Northwest will speed East, and a considerable body of opinion inclines to the view that Europe...
...first conclusion reached after the disastrous crash of our overambitious plans for foreign trade in 1920, was that we had best stick to domestic trade and write our foreign efforts off as a War delusion. Yet the recent marked gain in both our imports and exports with Latin America goes to show that something substantial has survived the 1919-20 boom...
...total trade in Latin America in 1923 amounted to $1,743,919,000-$1,030,292, in imports and $693,627, in exports. The gain over 1922 in exports was 25%, that in imports...
...pile up, prices are firm, extra dividends are the order of the day, earnings are increasing. Nevertheless, some American steel leaders are casting anxious eyes towards Europe. Schwab is in Germany. Gary has departed for South America. To students of the industry, aware of bad conditions in the export trade, these facts are not without significance...