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Show BILLION DOLLAR MARK IS PASSED Washington, July 29. Exports manufacturers man-ufacturers of the United States In the fiscal year just enQcd passed the billion-dollar mark (or the first time, according to figure's by the bureau of statistics. The value of tills portion of tho country's exports exceeded $1,-021,000.000 $1,-021,000.000 Of tljese manufactures $764,000,000 worth wore ready for consumption, and j$347,000,000 worth for future use in manufacture. The growth in tjie export manufactures manufac-tures has been greater than In the growth of other merchandise. They formed 34 per cenj of the exports last year, whereas 10 years ago they constituted con-stituted only 33 per cent and In 1S92 only 18 per cent. I |