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Show MILLIONS FOR TOYS Over a hundred million dollars has been expended for toys by the people of the United States even in tthis year of economies, 1921. The factory value of toys manufactured In the United States, says the Trade Record of the National City Bank of New York, more than trebled when the war cut us off from that former chief source of our toy imports, Germany, Ger-many, and the value of the "toys and games" turned out by our factories in 1919, the latest census year, is officially of-ficially stated at $40,000,000 against $14,000,000 in the preceding census year 1914. Meantime the imports the year, prior to the war to a little Of toys which fell from $S. 000, 000 in more than $1,000,000 in the year of its close, quickly advanced to $6,-000,000 $6,-000,000 in 1920 and $10,000,000 in 1921, so that the imports of toys in the fiscal year 1921 were actually greater In value than In any year preceding the war. |