Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-11
WORLD TRADE GAIN
SHOWN IN REPORT
ArnistiCe Day Survey Re-
veaIS Billion Dollar In
crease in Exports.
3 BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November lit has
been customary for several years for the
very efficient National Foreign Trade
Council to give out an ArmiStice day
survey of foreign trade for the year
The high lights in this years report
are:
The world gained billion dollars in
exports. German exports have made
the biggest advance this year of any
year since 1925.
The United States exports led in
growth every year since 1918.
Asia, land of the future, has made
the largest proportional advance In her
export trade since 1918.
Europe is returning to her old self.
She is now within 96 per cent OF her
aggregate 1918 sales abroad.
The countries that lag farthest in
world trade recovery are Russia, Aus
tria and Hungary.
Export prices are stable and world
exports are II per cent greater in cor
responding values than In 1918.
A word to the business man. The
council raises the question concerning
how much trade would the world be
doing at its normal pre-war rate OF In
crease If its growth had not been inter-
volumes for the cause of peace-for the
world would be doing now about twice
rs much as it does.
War and international trade are not
Observation-Disclosures they are not even
on good speaking terms That's the
councils message for Armistice day.
Visitors to New York no longer gaze
in wonder at the Woolworth Building
because of its height. No longer does
it dominate the skyline as it did tor
so many years. 1t is now overtoppeo
by the Bank of Manhattan Building, on
Wall street, and the new ChrySler
Building, on East Forty-second street.
These two new buildings are in the
process of completion. The steel YORK
Is already up and the construction WORK
is fast taking FORM But their SUI
premacy will be short-lived. Already
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
has announced that it will begin the
construction of a building Immediately
adjoining Its present quarters which
will be 100 stories high and will house
$4,000 of its employees.
This building will overtop every other
building in the city--at least for a
time. It will be used exclusively 10
house the employees of this insurance
company.
The plans for reaching the various
floors in the structure make an inter
esting story in itself. The f1rSt Is
stories will be Serviced by moving stairs,
above the thirteenth floor to the thirty
second floor by fast express elevators;
above the thirty-second flood by local
elevators. These local elevators will be
divided into two clasSes-two banks OF
elevators, consisting of 10 cars in each
bank-one of them running to the
seyenty-third floor and the other to the
Tooth.
The structure will occupy a complete
block and it will emphasize light.
With new building material coming
In to supplant the heavy plaster and
concrete for flooring purposes, buildings
from now on can be shot up from 100
to 200 stories in height, and we may
see even higher buildings In the next
decade.
The Forest Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture has
been more than busy this Fall, because
the forest fire season has been of I'M
precedented length.
The dry weather has been largely re-
sponsible. The big 20,000-acre fire at
the Cleveland National Forest, in Cali
fornia, was brought under control finally
last week, with 800 men on the fire
line.
Twenty-nine fires in the Pacific
Northwest were reported in the last 10
days. One of them, on the west side,
near the Rainier National Forest, burned
up 500 acres In "a hours before 1t was
gotten under control.
Up to october 20 about 100000 acres
of national forests had been burned
over so far this year. The fire sup
preston has cost the Government So
145,000s
The Forest Service suggests the ex-
tension of roads and trails, removal Of
recognized hazards, such as roadway
slashings; construction of fire breaks,
emergency fire lines, removal Of snags,
completion of necessary lookout and
telephone systems and strengthening
the forest fire organization. The serv-
ice officials say all of these are urgent
and necessary measures to meet the
present situation.
Unprecedented in the history of
the service" says the report.
General business conditions in Ven
eZuela are improving. The coffee
harvest is about ready. The crop is
estimated at so per cent less than
last year.
There is much activity in the con-
struction of roads. A complete road
building program for the entire coun-
NY WAS duOptcu ScfCAdl years dBO aAIu
this plan is being followed vigorously
at this time.
But it is in the development of its
oil fields that Venezuela's greatest fu-
! ture lies. It's oil production for Sep
TENDER amounted to IL 100000 barrels
of which 100000 barrels were ex-
ported This is slight decrease over
export from the preceding month. Al
the end OF September there were 49,
500, 900 barrels of oil in storage over
, ting in present production and keep
ing new development to a minimum
Venezuela's future is particularly
bright.
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