Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trucks and busses to the Italians in Africa. Thumbing his nose at the State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit now. The American Export Liner Exochorda, one of the biggest U. S. freighters in the Mediterranean service, steamed out of Jersey City with the greatest cargo in her career, consisting chiefly of such near-war materials as lubricating oil, copper, motors, apparently consigned to Italy...
...failure to ensure export trade by keeping farm prices in competition with foreign countries leaves the agricultural problems worse for 1936. Mr. Johnson maintains. He also points out that the failure to promote increased business activity has been aided by the PWA-WPA projects and the destruction of business confidence...
...Manhattan, through whose harbor passes 90% of the U. S. annual $100,000,000 trade with Italy, the Export Managers Club lunched in high dudgeon last week, resolved to trade & traffic with Italy to the best of their ability. Next that potent nexus of big shippers, railroads and steamship companies, the Conference of Port Development of the City of New York Inc. resolved that the President's warnings are "hasty and ill-advised," a "serious blow" to U. S. Commerce & Recovery. After becoming so heated that it referred to the President as "the daring young man on the international...
...William and Mary chartered the institution, granting a fabulous cash endowment of well over $100,000, 20,000 acres of land, and an annual income that shot up like a pre-depression graph. This was garnered from an export duty of two cents on every pound of tobacco, another on all skins and pelts, an import tax on all liquors, and one-sixth of the fees of all public surveyors. Around 1750 this amounted to $15,000 annually, arousing the admiration and envy of William and Mary's poor, struggling contemporaries in the other colonies...
...given Britain by cheapening the pound (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931) has at last just begun to wear off, the Chancellor observed: "I must say that up to now there has been exceedingly little sign of a check in our movement toward recovery. . . . Employment . . . is picking up.... Export and retail trades, notes in circulation, bank clearings and bank advances all show substantial increases.... It is only in new capital issues, which were continuously extending up to the end of July, that in August we received a definite check, due doubtless to the situation abroad...