Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the committee found that American Export Line had bought $40,000,000 worth of Government ships for $1,000,000, had received $4,289,000 in subsidies in three years for carrying only a comparative handful of mail, had paid its then President Henry Herbermann over $1,000,000 in salary and expense allowances during the same period (TIME, Oct. 9; March 12). The committee also looked into Dollar Line, found that it had received $14,000,000 in subsidies during four years, had paid its vice president, Robert Stanley Dollar, no less than $635,000 in commissions...
...Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. - ED. Haul Sirs...
...last week the delegates of 21 nations at the World Wheat Conference in London had talked themselves dry. Most of them wanted arbitrarily to boost the export price of wheat 10%. Leaders of this faction were three great wheat-sellers: Canada, Australia and the U. S. Drought in those lands had reduced the wheat crop, already boosted the price. Last August's Conference had given them such adequate export quotas for the current year (Canada: 200,000,000 bu.; Australia: 105,000,000; the U. S.: 47,000,000) that they were willing to give up part of them...
...would like to know whether, since the Disarmament Conference met in 1932, any licenses for the export of arms to Denmark and Holland have been issued, and if so, what kinds of arms and in what quantities...
...others purely industrial. Actually, Krupp is rearming Germany--the discoverable portion of whose annual armament bill now about $80,000,000. Germany, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles to import armaments, receives generous supplies from Sweden (where Krupp controls the armament firm of Bofors) and Holland; forbidden to Export armaments, she ships to South America, the Far East, or to any European nation that will violate its own treaty by ordering from her. Yet for all the might of the Krupp works we must look elsewhere today to find the real heart of the armament business...