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Show American Firms Out After Foreign Trade Federal Commissioner Says U. S. Manufacturers Are Sending Salesmen Abroad Chicago, Sept. 8. Foreign trndo Is growing rapidly with thu largo manufacturers of tho United States, nccordlng to Edwin Hurley of Chicago Chica-go u member of tho federal trnde commission which has finished a tour of tho nation to get first hand Information from business men. Keprescntntlves of practically every ev-ery Industry In tho country, large and small, appeared heforo tho commission, com-mission, which held hearings In nil parts of the country. Thoy explained what progress hnd been made In foreign for-eign trade nnd offered suggestions to lmprovo It. "Tho trip," snld Mr. Hurley today, "was most Instructive Whnt surprised sur-prised mo most vins tho fnct tlint n largo number of llrms nlrcady havo engaged In foreign trndo. Most of them hnve started within tho Inst cnr. Many of those firms havo sent representatives to other countries In tho Interest of their products. "I look for business to bo comluct- ' cd on a strict cost basis In n short mM I time There will bo no need for jjH combinations to fix prices and onco H the business men learn that, thoro !H will be no dcslro to return to tlio ,H old plnn of llxlng prices." H |