Word: export
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lihme pantry yielded cakes. The Lihme icebox yielded a clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...Great Britain than she buys from the Mother Country. 4) A conspicuous instance of Canadian talent for steadygoing statesmanship has been the Dominion's handling of the liquor problem. The British North America Act* was so drawn that the Canadian Federal authority has control over liquor manufacture and export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall be either Dry or Wet. At one time or another each of the nine Canadian provinces have gone Dry; but the following have resumed liquor sale under restricted government control; Quebec...
...begun work in a New Haven wire mill; soon he made himself one of the best wire pullers in the country. Shortly after, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary organized the steel corporation (1901). Mr Farrel became president of U. S. Steel Products Co., the corporation's export division. He was the best salesman of steel goods then known...
While Charles Michael Scwab was president of U. S. Steel (1901-3), Mr. Farrell sold steel products abroad. Export of 200,000 tons of steel a year was considered prodigious at that time. By 1903 when William Ellis Corey became second president of U. S. Steel, Salesman Farrell was selling practically a million and a half tons of steel to foreign consumers...
Their intention is by no means chimerical. Russia already has a perfect monopoly of wheat sales, and in two years will be ready to export 100,000,000 bushels yearly, said its representative, Saul G. Bron...