Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Trade Commission-Garland Ferguson Jr. (Alternate: Ewin L. Davis...
That it pays to be a good neighbor was indicated last week by solid statistics. Partly as a result of neighborliness, largely because of the reciprocal trade treaties of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, U. S. exports to Latin America as a whole increased last year from 40% to 90% in value. Those pessimists who have believed that the totalitarian European states were gaining political and economic influence south of the Rio Grande were surprised to hear that in the same period Nazi Germany's trade increased less than 30%, Fascist Italy...
...recent abortive, Nazi-labeled Brazilian revolt is evidence that totalitarian propaganda sometimes backfires. Sometimes totalitarian economics backfire, too, and last week it was disclosed that the U. S. had nudged Germany out of No. 1 place as exporter to Brazil, that Brazil was starting to cut down her German trade...
...increased trade with Brazil came with the reciprocal trade treaty effective Jan. 1, 1936. Best argument to induce Brazil to take more U. S. exports was that the U. S. normally buys with internationally exchangeable dollars twice as much from Brazil as Brazil buys from the U. S. Coffee accounts for about 80% of Brazilian exports to the U. S. Later, however, the U. S. discovered another powerful trade persuader. In 1937 the U. S. agreed to sell to Brazil gold up to a value of $60,000,000 to steady Brazilian exchange. Also helpful to U. S.-Brazilian trade...
...them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village, whose schools, opened in 1929, are a part of Dearborn's city system. Some others: nearly a score of rural schools in Michigan; trade schools at the River Rouge plant; three schools in Sudbury, Mass.; seven rural schools and the famed Martha Berry Schools in Georgia; an agricultural institute at Boreham House near Chelmsford, England; a school for rubber workers' children, Fordlandia, 600 miles up the Amazon in Brazil...