In paragraph 9, what the phrase "drew him on by artful questions" means is that he questioned him to try to gain privileged information.
He had to find out some information that was very important to him, so he started questioning him furtively so as to get to the bottom of things.
A package with the handkerchief that makes dogs lose their sense of smell.
While reading a chapter in a book about the history of the US economy, you read about how the economy added more corporate, professional jobs after WorldWar II. The development i most expect the book to include as support for this detail is
Steep increase of business profits due to government contracts
because its the most appropriate one and there was increase in business profit and economy
so correct option is C
hope it helps
It solves the possible unbalance in value of one part of the trade over the other.