Budgets and visible commercial balances of European countries 1922-1925

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Identifikator:: 1744852030

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-117951

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Budgets and visible commercial balances of European countries 1922-1925

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Reference Service on International Affairs

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 39 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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216 SELLING LATIN AMERICA traveling man—courteous, polite, affable, familiar with trade customs, national manner isms, and speaking both Spanish and Portu guese perfectly was on the scene early, paying particular attention to the demands of the merchant. If a certain style of cloth was too wide, the obliging German made it of the di mensions required. If the color was too sub dued for the aboriginal customer of the native merchant, the pattern and pigment were changed to suit the buyer. If plows were re quired with one handle instead of two, so that the farmer could have the other free for manipulating his cigarette, his wish was cheer fully complied with. The idea that filled the mind of the salesmen from Europe was to give the customer just what he wanted, and this rule was never deviated from. No at tempt was made to force the storekeeper to adopt the customs of Europe in anything, but stress was laid on the fact that their only ob ject was to oblige in every way the buyer, and cater to his demands. The suggestion from the storekeeper that he got six months’ time

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