Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the assumption of the framers of these bills were right, they have left many weaknesses in them. Although they say that trade of war materials must cease in wartime, and that ships under the American flag cannot export certain other commodities, those bills do not actually stop trade in Baxter's opinion...
...personable, 38-year-old bachelor who keeps trim by riding and fencing, Ambassador Martinez Fraga is sure of gratifying attention from Washington debutantes. Aside from striving to preserve and perhaps to better Cuba's favorable sugar export status against the attacks of U. S. refiners, he can rest his diplomatic worries largely on the "generous and cordial co-operation lent by Your Excellency" for which he thanked Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt last week...
...language. In Republican language Senator Vandenberg's figures meant that reciprocal tariff agreements were putting the U. S. on the road to bankruptcy. In Democratic language the same figures meant just the opposite: not only was the U. S. selling more of its products (biggest single U. S. export: cotton), but U. S. investors were finally tending to get something of value (more imports) as return on the $12,000,000,000 of U. S. money they invested abroad mostly in Republican times...
...demand for the evacuation of sit-downers from five plants, two in Flint, two in Detroit, one in Anderson, Ind. General Motors agreed to the union's demand that it would not resume operations in these plants nor remove dies, tools, machines or materials (except for the export trade) during peace negotiations, which should meanwhile begin...
...which the bounding indices reflect was in copper. Metal prices at home and abroad have been rising dramatically since early autumn. Fortnight ago copper's sister non-ferrous metal, tin, was placed on virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...