Despite the depression and the increase in the unemployment, figures for, the engineering trade read, China paid more for foreign machinery in 1930 than 1929 and still more in 1931 than in 1930, "In the year under review, however, a disinet decline in purchases from broad has to be recorded, There ut is more certain than' that "over-production" in the engineering, trade had nothing to do with it.
needs and can absorb, as much machinery as she can pay for, and jean go on absorbing it indefinitely, but. her requirements are so great} that she cannot pay for everything, at once, In the earlier years of! the machine-age this country did
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