Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give $150,000,000 more to the Federal Farm Board, thus tacitly approving its wheat-market operations. Such operations had been approved and called a success by a meeting of farm-organization heads and agricultural legislators before Congress convened. Despite broad objections by Senator Borah, who wants the export debenture form of farm aid, and specific objections by Senators Black and Tydings, who tried to stop the Board's trading in commodity futures and on margin, the bill was rammed through before the holiday adjournment, went to the President...
...Knox had saved all his Hearst salary, that he is well supported by the interest which he still holds in the Union & Leader. To succeed Col. Knox, Publisher Hearst named Thomas J. White, vice president of International Magazine Co., Inc., onetime employe of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s export department. His first task will be to com plete a careful reduction in personnel, ordered last fortnight by Publisher Hearst...
Rubber. In 1922 the British Empire passed the famed Stevenson Act which restricted the export of rubber from British colonies. Although British exports were checked, Dutch competition grew more intense, more rubber trees matured in British territory. In 1928 the restriction was removed. Since then, "tapping holidays" have failed because of the lack of cooperation from native growers...
...Senate Committee quizzed other Power Commission nominees and, without pronouncing judgment, gave out the impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit...
...Amore? (Italotone). Made in Hollywood by an Italian company, with a cast recruited from Italian actors and actresses living there, this picture differs from the ordinary export translations of U. S. films because it presents an original story, designed particularly for Italo-Americans. Technically it is inferior to Hollywood standards; the dialog in Italian is not well recorded, but it was received with enthusiasm last week by playhouses in the Italian districts of U. S. cities. The comedy is built around a young girl whom three elderly bachelors keep from committing suicide. They buy the dressmaking establishment where she used...