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In the case of shipping, it may be of interest to go
beyond the figures showing the payments between Germans and
Americans, and give more inclusive figures as to the total
earnings of German shipping in passenger and freight traffic
to and from American ports. During 1937 such earnings are
estimated to have been at least $63,000,000, itemized as
follows: passenger traffic, $20,000,000 (estimated expen-
ditures of American passengers only); cargo inbound to the
United States, $22,000,000 (paid by Americans); cargo out-
bound from the United States, $21,000,000 (about $15,000,000
paid by Germans and about $6,000,000 by other foreigners,
not Americans, to German shipping plying to and from Ameri-
can ports). There would also be a few million dollars
spent by alien passengers on these German lines for which
no estimate is available.
The figures for investments in the first part of this
memorandum have been brought down to recent dates in 1938,
and notes to items 3 and 7 therein show changes in the
nominal par value amount of short term capital investment
between December 29, 1957 and September 28, 1958 No
estimates
called "travelmarks, established to liquidate the funds of
foreign banks frozen by the Standstill Agreements. Such ex-
penditures did not provide Germany with any current dollar
exchange, but merely with the means of reducing short-
term debt of Germans to Americans.