This fact is strikingly illustrated by the statistics of bank clearings, of deposits in national banks, of exports and of agriculture. The exchanges of the organized clearing houses of the country reached last year the unprecedented total of 408 billions of dollars, being 74 billion dollars greater than those of the preceding year.
According to a recent report of the Comptroller of the Currency the depositors in national banks number no fewer than 18,240,200, or one in every'six of the population. The total amount standing to their credit when the report was compiled was over 13 billion dollars. The total exports in 1919 represented a value of eight billion dollars as compared with less than two and one-half biliiéns in 1913, and the total imports four billions as against less than 1,800 millions, the total foreign trade being thus 12 billion dollars as compared with about four and a quarter billions the year before the war,
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