QUESTIONS AND TOPICS
1. Chart the statistics of trade as in previous exercises.
2. Divide the figures of imports and exports by the figure for the price level of the year (1.01, 1.24, etc.,), so reducing values to the level of 1914, and enter results on chart with a dotted line that gives approximately volume of imports and exports.
3. What was the relative importance of foreign and of domestic trade in the United States in this period? [B. M. Anderson, in Annalist of N. Y. Times, Jan. 3, 1921, 17: 9.]
4. What exports of the United States, (a) increased most in value, (b) increased most in quantity, in this period? [Statistical Abstract, 1920, Table of domestic exports, quantities and values, by years 1911-1920.]
5. What exports declined in quantity and in value? Same.
6. Compare the exports from the United States to a particular country at the beginning and at the end of the war. [Use Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Misc. Series, no. 38 and no. 106, Trade of U. S. with the world, 1914-15 and 1918-19. The student may, for example, take Argentina, Chile, Japan, or British India.]
7. Using sources given above, report upon the history of a particular import, or on the imports from a particular country, during the war.
8. How the dyestuffs crisis was met. [E. Hendrick in American World’s Work, March, 1918, 35: 531-535.]
9. The problem of potash and nitrates. [F. P. Stockbridge in American World’s Work, May, June, 1918, 36: 28-34, 191-197.]