Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creation of a body of international law," the reduction of international relations to "established rules of conduct...
...bill to provide foreign trade zones in ports (a device similar to the creation of "free ports"). In these zones, goods from abroad can be landed, stored and re-exported without payment of customs duties...
Export Corporation. Creation of a farmers' export corporation, under Federal charter, with broad powers "to preserve the domestic market for the American agricultural producer at an American price...
...present. Perceiving that it was most improbable that any publisher of books would ever underwrite so vast an undertaking, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times declared his paper would advance $500,000 to the American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies, for the creation of 20 volumes containing the lives of some 20,000 illustrious Americans, including none of the living. The Times sought to assume no control over the project, "the function of the Times being simply that of making possible, by this large subvention, the preparation of a book of reference which...
...Creation of an Immigration Commission to study immigration conditions, given power to administer a flexible quota law adjusting immigration to social and industrial needs...