Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock transactions are crooked, where each college is just four years of drinking, where each dance is a brawl and each marriage a failure. Is it not possible to export pictures which are more typical of American life? Out here hundreds of proud Americans will continue to explain that OUR COUNTRY IS GOOD but our advertising is BAD. W. SCOTT HOKE Singapore...
...Farm Board would get them better prices. Meanwhile the National Grain Corp. braced itself to handle 300 million bushels of wheat (about one-third of the crop total) through its elevators and co-operative agencies. From Hall-Baker Co. in Kansas City it hired Paul Bartlett to operate its export business...
Provisions. Stricken from the bill was the Senate's Export Debenture Plan. The President's power to flex rates 50% up or down is preserved much as it is under present law, with the difference that he cannot determine for himself the degree to which duties are to be changed but must act on specific figures given him by the Tariff Commission...
During the week the Textile Converters Association reversed its traditional pro-tariff stand and asked for the bill's rejection. The National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association did likewise. The American Importers & Exporters Association urged a veto on the ground that the new tariff rates (highest in U. S. history; an average of 41% ad valorem on all dutiable commodities or 20% above the present law) "will cause ill will and reprisals which will make it impossible for us to develop the export trade necessary to the continued prosperity...
...their business in the light of world economics (as taught by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover), they feared their foreign customers would cease to sell over a higher tariff wall, would thereby suffer reduced income and buying power, would of necessity stop purchasing U. S. merchandise. If U. S. export trade drops, potent manufacturers envisage a corresponding drop in their production, their profits, their employed labor. Only about 6% of U. S. production is exported but to tycoons whose business has outgrown the domestic market that 6% represents the difference between good and bad times. The fact that...