Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rushed south by plane following its passage, the new Neutrality Act (see p. 16) was ferried out to the Potomac where the President signed it a few hours before the old Neutrality Act expired. He promptly issued a new proclamation declaring Spain at war and forbidding export of arms to Rebels or 'Loyalists...
England exhausted her iron faster than coal, and now finds it convenient to export coal to such a city as Bilbao, bringing the ships home laden with ore. British capital and coal has enabled the city to build up a steel industry, though three-fourths of the iron that reaches the city is exported to England. Germany has never had sufficient iron. It is no accident, therefore, that the headquarters of the German "volunteers" in Spain have been set up at Devo, thirty miles from Bilbao, and these troops are leading the attempt to reduce the defenses of the Northern...
...bankers said they were ready to furnish at the rate of 5,000,000 a month. Cuba would have 2,500,000 each month as a seigniorage, would pay for the rest by turning over the U. S. and foreign currency captured through Cuba's sizable export balance. With its own currency Cuba could then set up a national bank to furnish Cubans with foreign credit in exchange for their new pesos, pegged to the U. S. dollar. In addition the Bank could furnish Cubans with credit to buy back their land from foreigners, run their businesses, put Cuba...
...other inspired by national selfishness. Those inspired by selfishness were Congressmen, mostly from sugar-producing States, who wanted to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff barrier so as to get rid of business competitors. Into the law they wrote provisions which would institute a series of export taxes on Philippine goods shipped to the U. S.-the equivalent of a U. S. tariff-beginning at 5% in 1940 and mounting 5% a year. Since the U. S. is the Philippines' best market and the Philippines' chief export, sugar, goes almost entirely...
...minister of national economy in the Hitler regime, who has served as a member of the board of UFA since 1927. Once run largely by Jews, like the U. S. cinema, the German cinema industry has waned rapidly since 1933, lately failed not only to produce films worthy of export but even films that can compete successfully with foreign-made films in Germany...