Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to mill about excitedly shouting. "You can't take our tobacco that way!" In the confusion someone began throwing apples at six-foot Mr. Crabtree, who dodged handily, but the auction, now a riot, was called off. Only 78,000 lb. of dark leaf tobacco, mostly for export to Europe for making cheap cigars, have been sold...
Potent is tight-lipped Copper Exporters, Inc., foreign sales agency for U. S. producers. This group was formed in 1926, has since set the price abroad. Katanga belongs to it. Foreign consumers have often complained bitterly about the price, roundly denounced the association. Although copper for export should theoretically be no more than the shipping rate above the New York price, the disparity has often been .0075? instead of the accepted .0025? per lb. Smaller members of the association have complained, found themselves up against a strong voting control which brooked little criticism. Last week all dissenters found...
...Scottish Sultana. Officially the Sultan is "independent," but accepts a thumping yearly British subsidy and does as he is told. In greatest breadth Johore is only 100 mi., in greatest length 165 mi. Mostly covered with green forests, Johore supports an easy-going population of 337,000 who export rubber, import strong drink, including Scotch...
Germany outstripped even the U. S. in exports last week. On the basis of trade statistics covering the first ten months of 1931 Deutschland became uber alles the world's leading export nation. Her surplus of exports over imports ("favorable trade balance") for the year thus...
Breaking down the German export surplus of $561,204,000 for the first ten months of 1931, one sees that nearly half this surplus consists of exports to Soviet Russia and of "payments in kind" to the Reparations' creditors of Germany. The latter, of course, are a drain on Germany, not a gain. The exports to Russia are a story in themselves (see p. 20). Unlike other German exports they were sold on the longest of long export credits. To furnish these credits, German banks and the Reichsbank in particular have been drawing on available credit resources...