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...Room conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which he may drive in return for downward debt revision: lower tariff on U. S. exports to the British Empire; stipulation that Britain return to the gold standard...
...course, always obvious 'that such a trend would not continue unchecked. But instead of flattening out, the curve of production turned abruptly downward. In 1932 only about 1,100,000 passenger cars were sold. Their wholesale value of $605,000,000 barely exceeded the $541,000,000 of 1915 and was only a little more than one-quarter...
Commerce's Chapin: "The trend of industrial production, prices, employment, pay rolls, merchandise distribution, foreign trade, and constructor was downward throughout the year Output was the smallest for any fiscal post-War period. . . . Foreign trade declined in value to the lowest level since pre-War years...
...this time the genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
...Trade, however, forced him to sell some of his holdings because the Grain Futures Administration had said they were too large. At the news "Cutten is unloading," the price, of course, broke sharply. Last week Speculator Cutten observed: "Since that day the trend of wheat prices has been steadily downward. . . . The state of the market is attributable to Government action . . . [and] due to the fact that speculators have been frightened or driven away from it. What speculation has been done has been carried on largely by Government bureaucrats using the taxpayers' money. If men seeking a profit had been...