Excerpt from Trading With the Near East: Present Conditions and Future Prospects Before the war merchandise from the United States was a negligible factor in the business life of Constantinople, and a vessel flying the Stars and Stripes was a rare sight. Today one will find four or five American liners in the Golden Horn at all times. In addition, there are one or two steamers each month which stop on their way to and from Batoum, where they dis charge Near East Relief cargoes. Then there are the irregular visits of American tramp steamers. Today a dozen impor tant American corporations have perma nent offices there and many other Ameri can concerns are represented by local agents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.