Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This plan resembled the Equalization Fee plan in all respects save one: instead of the farmer's sharing the Government's loss, the Government would suffer alone. The Board had bought 140.- 000,000 bu. of the farmer's surplus wheat. Now it was going to export 35,000,000 bu. of "choice milling quality'' stored along the Atlantic and Pacific sea-boards. Its purpose was "to clear the ports of facilities for taking care of the 1931 crop...
When representatives to a European grain conference at Paris last week (which accomplished nothing) learned of the Farm Board's export plan, they raised an anxious cry: "Dumping!" Quick were they to point out that by putting 35,000,000 bu. on the already depressed European wheat market the U. S. would be doing the very thing about which it had complained most bitterly against Soviet Russia. Resentful of this foreign criticism, Farm Board Chairman Legge retorted: "Sheer bunk and Bolshevik! No comparison! Russian wheat was sold at prices far below world prices but wheat from...
...alert, active President cannot long avoid trouble. President Hoover's first came within two months of his inauguration. As part of Farm Relief, the Senate wanted an export debenture. Bold and self-confident, President Hoover scotched this subsidy plan, won much public applause. He, said his friends, would show the Senate who was master. Nevertheless, that first victory cost President Hoover the friendship and support of Senator Borah and the Insurgents. A breach in the G. O. P. was then opened that gapes wider than ever today...
Most civilized European countries manufacture opium, morphine and heroin. All. save the U. S. and Soviet Russia, export it in large quantities and thus supply U. S. smugglers of the drugs. Turkey and Switzerland (seat of the drug-fighting League of Nations) have been the worst offenders. However, Turkey upon the insistence of U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew last week forced Istanbul's narcotic factories to close until they complied with export restrictions. Medicine needs some 350 tons of opium yearly. Manufacturers produce something over 8,000 tons yearly...
...from the hilly suburbs to the North, in town for shopping; children at school; a few people resting in the brick Cathedral of St. John or the well ordered art museum. Freight cars from Wellington, 200 mi. southwest, were on sidings; ships were loading frozen and corned meats for export. It was a normal summer noontime...