Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: V. Paraguay

Collection:: Economics Books

64 SELLING LATIN AMERICA two slaughter-houses, killing about 40,000 an nually. There are two large American com panies engaged in the cattle industry; also one big German firm in the same line. Paraguay has not invited capital and in ducements of this nature need not be expected for some time. While supposedly on a gold basis, money of this metal exists only as a fiction. The incon vertible paper peso has a fluctuating value, being at times as low as two and a half cents U. S. gold, and as high as five cents U. S. gold, according to the stability of the gov ernment and local commercial conditions. Credits should be extended with the great est caution. In 1913 Paraguay exported $5,462,000 worth of materials, chiefly fruit to Argentine, as well as yerba mate, timber, hides, dried beef, quebracho, lace, and tobacco. Most of her exports were taken by the neighboring re publics, and by them re-shipped to the markets of the world. No exports to the United States for 1913 are given, but in 1912 they

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