Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with and surpass the U. S." as Stalin once put it) to concentrate at once on light industries. These would make shoes, clothing, farm implements, sewing machines and simple necessities like needles for which Soviet peasants clamor. From light industries would also come readily salable articles which Russia could "dump" abroad, thus further redressing her trade balance, bolstering her credit...
...almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico which Robinson refused. Tall, thin, baldish, spectacled, with a mustache partly concealing his hypersensitive mouth, Poet Robinson never talks about his own poetry, never criticizes other...
...Wales, under the noses of Argentines and Russians with mountains of wheat for sale or barter, secrecy was kept, the two partners and their friends communicating in code. At the last moment came a scare: the Russians, having traded wheat for Italian fruit, had the same idea. They would dump the coffee they received into the U. S. market instead of marketing it in an orderly way. U. S. coffee men who had been taken into the secret were worried, but the new Brazilian Government-wealthy conservatives led in this matter by Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitacker-were true...
Ever since the Board declared it would not peg prices for the 1931 wheat crop, its 1930 holdings have threatened the market with a selling avalanche. What, became the big wheat question, did the Farm Board propose to do with its supply? Hold it off the market? Dump it at every price rise? Dribble it out steadily...
Price, then, is the first baffling element in the wheat problem: How can one sell at all without selling cheap? How can one sell cheap without dumping? How can one dump without cruelty...