Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Maritime Commission called for bids on twelve new fast cargo ships, some of which American Export will presumably buy. The specifications are for single screw steel ships: length, 435 ft.; breadth, 63 ft.; draft, 25¼ ft.; speed 15½ knots (about 17½ m.p.h. 6 m.p.h. faster than average U. S. freighters); range, 13,000 miles; to cost around $1,700,000 each and to be completed within 14 months. All must be swiftly convertible into useful war vessels...
...mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher: ''Why can't we produce decent entertainment ourselves?" The answer was a series of children's programs (music, marionets, etc.) given by Manhattan professionals. Admission: 10?. So enthusiastic was the reception that the next year Junior Programs, with Mrs. McFadden as executive director, began...
...airplane capable of negotiating the Atlantic nonstop; for its size, weight and power, its payload is more than that of any other transport. Designer Martin already has on his drawing boards plans of a 118,000-lb. ocean transport, which will carry 100 passengers, sleep 66. Reported purchaser: American Export Air Line's, prospective affiliate of American Export Lines, whose ships will fly between the U. S. and Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...inaugurated a program of destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every...
...rich Sao Paulo planter who is currently president of D. N. C. declared that D. N. C.'s crop control would continue. Last week, however, the Brazilian Government tired of playing Santa Claus, announced not only that production will no longer be limited but that the Brazilian coffee export tax will be cut some 75%. Said Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa: "It would be neither possible nor just that on Brazil only should fall the entire weight of its policy favoring...