Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union brought forth an all-time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight this pest, increased their acreage, pushed their production...
...involuntary crop reduction or elimination, on the theory that the planters would be worse off than they now are, that hundreds of thousands of workers in gins, cottonseed oil mills, railroads, steamship lines would be rendered jobless by "Drop-a-Crop." The President attacked the problem from the export angle. How, he asked, could cotton surplus be sold outside...
...Chicago market, on the ground that such sales depress prices as much as if the wheat were actually brought into the U. S.; 2) cut in half the tariff rebate (now 40^) on every bushel of Canadian wheat brought into the U. S. under bond for milling and export, thereby giving U. S. wheat a 22(- advantage for this trade...
...Germany, the export or transfer of currency abroad was forbidden without permission from the National Bank...
...Export copper, c.i.f. (cost, insurance, freight) to European base ports, was reduced from 8¼ to a new low of 8?. Sales were small. Domestic copper was nominally quoted at 8?, many sales were arranged at 7¾?, small lots could be picked...