Word: export
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the post-War trade boom, one of the favorite sports of business men was organizing foreign banks. The country then enjoyed a tremendous export trade, and the thought was that an extension of American banking facilities abroad would serve to hold open the channels of this foreign buying of our goods and raw materials. The near-panic of 1920 perceptibly cooled the enthusiasm for foreign banks, and subsequent years have seen their gradual disappearance. The recent retirement of the Asia Banking Corporation, whose business has been taken over by the International Banking Corporation, leaves the latter institution...
...Roosevelt and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant secretary of the Navy (sons of the late President), appeared before the investigating Committee and volunteered testimony. Colonel Roosevelt little more than introduced his brother "Archie Roosevelt declared that he had just resigned as Vice President of the Union Petroleum Co., the export auxiliary of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., because his suspicions had been aroused over the activities of the Sinclair interest in connection with Teapot Dome. Following Senator Caraways declaration Mr Sinclair had sailed hurriedly for Europe, and he believed several others connected with the affair had done likewise. Mr. Sinclair...
...Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller's cage...
...preserved goods, meats, etc., if we are not able to send to America our goods and the services of our emigrants? How can we pay our War debt of three and one-half billion lire if America refuses the only means of payment open to us-that is, the export of our goods and the labor of our emigrants...
...Ambassador to Great Britain. ¶ Held up the nomination of Edward P. Farley as Chairman of the Shipping Board until investigation showed whether the charge was true that he was interested in a British shipping company, and gave British vessels preference over American ships in carrying grain for export...