They dispatched Miyauchi, the University of Washington-educated son of a Japanese lumbermerchant, to learn the ropes at U.S. Leasing International (now part of Ford's financial arm).
If a lumbermerchant in Philadelphia financed his inventory with a short-term loan, that loan would enter the banking system as an asset and somewhere down the line occasion the issuance of banknotes used to pay the lumberjacks in Wisconsin.