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Show TREND He w the ivind is blowing LA BOR Thanks partly to the cur-ren' cur-ren' house committee probe, a Gallup Gal-lup poll showed most of the nation fa' ors revision of the Wagner labor acu Score (of those who had an opinion) : 53 per cent for revision; If per cent for repeal; 29 per cent ft r no change. Meanwhile the house Dmmittee was about to ask for I lore money. COMMERCE Shipments of airplanes, air-planes, petroleum and metals to the .'llies boosted U. S. exports in Dei-ember to $358.000,000 the largest or any month in almost 10 years. COTTON Postponed for February, Febru-ary, March and April was Britain's end of her barter agreement with the U. S., under which American cotton is exchanged for British rubber. rub-ber. Reason: Britain needs bcr ships for other purposes. CANADA Ontario's legislature adopted 44 to 10 a measure criticizing criticiz-ing the Canadian government for "inefficient" handling of the war. JAPAN Backed by commercial interests, the Japanese government has clamped down on domestic silk production to maintain an unvarying unvary-ing amount of raw silk for export. |