Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Took half ($22,035,000) of her scrap iron sold last year and, in the first five 1939 months, $45,710,000 worth of oil and gasoline, copper and machinery, autos, trucks and parts...
...Offered her a market into which she dumped $18,108,000 worth of odds and ends in the first five 1939 months: crabmeat, tea, pyrethrum flowers (for insecticides), chinaware, electric light bulbs, zippers, toys...
...buyer of cotton ($52,644,000 worth last year...
...Took 80.4% of her raw silk exports ($83,651,000 worth last year...
Missing from these trade figures, moreover, is an item vital to warring Japan. In the last two years she has sold the U.S. $415,209,648 worth of gold, $4,202,856 worth of silver. She is now reported to have only about $140,000,000 of gold on hand. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said he was taking a "fresh look" at gold and silver purchases from Japan...