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of their transactions , which comprise more than half of the total exterior trade of the world , has declined 40 per cent since 1929 , partly as a result of the fall in prices , partly because fewer goods were exchanged .
of their transactions , which comprise more than half of the total exterior trade of the world , has declined 40 per cent since 1929 , partly as a result of the fall in prices , partly because fewer goods were exchanged .
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The Russians had hoped to increase the productivity of labor 110 per cent ; actually it has increased only 34 per cent , the steel output per worker being 300 tons a year , as compared with 620 tons in Germany and 1,300 in the United ...
The Russians had hoped to increase the productivity of labor 110 per cent ; actually it has increased only 34 per cent , the steel output per worker being 300 tons a year , as compared with 620 tons in Germany and 1,300 in the United ...
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Enormous over- production , encouraged by nonsensical credits such as the Farm Board pro- vided , brought the price of wheat down from $ 1.20 in 1929 to forty cents in September 1931. At this rate , with wheat selling at less than its ...
Enormous over- production , encouraged by nonsensical credits such as the Farm Board pro- vided , brought the price of wheat down from $ 1.20 in 1929 to forty cents in September 1931. At this rate , with wheat selling at less than its ...
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