Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with the International Sugar Agreement of 1930, President Grau last week set Cuba's sugar production quota for 1934 and allotted the picayune total of 1,500,000 tons for export to the U. S. There is no way of negotiating for an increase in that allotment until President Roosevelt recognizes the Grau Government. Thus the present allotment effectually sentences Cuba to economic bankruptcy. Everything depended last week on what President Roosevelt's new personal representative, Jefferson Caffery, would...
Died. Arthur T. Hickey, 37. master of the American Export Liner Exarch; by his own hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote...
...factions working at cross purposes was virtual sabotage of the AAA program. The Braintrusters held up codes for packers and food distributors because they wanted stiff provisions to socialize those industries. Mr. Peek held back on crop restriction plans because he wanted more efforts made to export surpluses...
...subordinate job in NRA. Then Mr. Tugwell suggested that he be made Minister to Czechoslovakia with a roving assignment as salesman for U. S. farm products in Europe. Both of these propositions Mr. Peek rejected. Then the President suggested he head a new committee to negotiate for greater export privileges for U. S. products. Mr. Peek considered, then accepted. The quarrel had pursued the normal course of quarrels between government cliques: from bitterness to outburst to balm for damaged feelings. As additional balm, Mr. Peek had the satisfaction of seeing three codes (retail food, wholesale food, food manufacturers) that...
Australia was omitted, not because of any Roosevelt animus toward vineyardists down under, but because the President's quotas are based on the wine exports of countries to the U. S. before Prohibition. At that time Australia's export trade in wine was an almost invisible trickle...