Word: exportability
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...what?" Inquiry reveals the fact that in China the old fashioned water pipe is passing, and cigars are too expensive for popular consumption. On the other hand, the coolie is taking very kindly to the cigarette. In fact, declares President R. M. Ellis of the Tobacco Products Export Co., cigarette consumption is growing in China at an even faster rate than in the United States...
...present the bulk of cigarette manufacturing is done by three interests in the order named: British-American Tobacco Co., Nanyang Brothers, the Tobacco Products Export Co. The second named concern represents Chinese capital, the other two British and American. About 80% of the tobacco used by Chinese cigarette factories is grown...
...favorable balance" means that the value of goods exported is greater than the value of goods imported. It means in general that money, or gold, must be paid to the "favored" nation to make up the difference. This kind of a balance is favorable inasmuch as it means a healthy export trade...
Ordinarily Standard Oil of Indiana sells about one-fifth of the gasoline marketed in the U. S. Last year its domestic sales are computed to have exceeded a billion gallons, plus export sales of about 100 million gallons. This was accomplished in spite of the "price wars" last Spring and Summer, and the threatened competition by Gov. McMaster of South Dakota...
American cargo steamers operating from New York or Boston are obviously handicapped by this advantage of the British shippers, as they are by the undiversified character of American export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...