Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long staying power, he dog-paddled along. Suddenly, he looked to his right, and there rushing down on him was a great big stick of timber. In large, red letters on the side was the label, "Dictatorial Rowers of the President over All Foreign Trade". If another log, called "Export Interests" had not suddenly appeared and bumped the big log away, the little child night have been drowned. As it was the collision of the two caused a foaming wave of Protest, and as his mouth was open in surprise at the suddenness of it all, he swallowed a good...
...there was a fresh cry for spending the so-called "gold profit," now safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three weeks straight in international exchange. Last week both the French franc and Dutch guilder were near the gold export point. Metal shipments to Europe were expected to start shortly, reversing a flow which, with one minor interruption, has gone on since the dollar was devalued just two years ago last week...
...lawyers were busy trying to draft a workable law, trouble was brewing at the Capitol. Farm leaders who rubber-stamped the New Deal's idea were already calling on Congressmen to advocate other proposals. One group wanted to take 30% of customs receipts to subsidize exports. Another group advocated guaranteeing farmers their cost of production. A third group demanded enactment of the domestic allotment plan; a fourth, export debentures, higher agricultural tariffs, repeal of the reciprocal trade treaty law; a fifth, dollar tinkering. Restive Congressmen declared that they were unwilling to vote for an AAA substitute that would...
India, Ceylon and Java-Sumatra export 85% of the world's tea. The U. S. buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with...
...meet the need for men export in comprehensive planning, the school has obtained the cooperation of other departments of the University in training its men. Last year the school required its students to take courses in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Engineering, Fine Arts, and Government, and urged them to take elective courses in Economics and Sociology, Mr. Hubbard said...