Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a bonanza, The Netherlands might be an economic burden to Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...
...back as 1935, when Japan tried to corner enough of China's silver currency to control her trade, China cleverly countered by withdrawing silver as legal tender and issuing notes which could be of no use to Japan...
...When Japan tried to force the conquered areas of China to trade only with her, Chinese merchants literally strapped their goods to their bellies, tucked them in their coat sleeves, packed them in false-bottomed baskets-and smuggled them out to the same old customers...
...Johnny Oros did not grow up on horseback, like most jockeys. Until four years ago the nearest he came to a horse was the shanks' mare on which he used to deliver groceries for his father's little emporium in Aurora, Ill. When Father Oros decided to trade his grocery store for a stable of third-rate thoroughbreds, Johnny learned to ride a horse...
Biggest 25? worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...