Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...
...Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce announced that the strike had crippled shipment of $75,000,000 worth of West Coast freight, was adding to that figure at the rate of $3,000,000 per day. Relief rolls were swelling, heavy construction being curtailed, perishable foods intended for export being dumped on local markets. San Francisco's Federation of Churches requested a day of "public and private prayers" for a strike settlement...
...Harkness had spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel...
...week Secretary of War Woodring and Secretary of the Navy Swanson, wearying of the pressure, decided to have the question of foreign sales settled formally and finally by President Roosevelt. After a White House conference, Secretary Woodring announced that the President had ordered the State Department to invoke the export licensing section of the Espionage Act, refuse to license the export of U. S. military planes until their types have been in use by the U. S. for approximately two years...
...Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden of another Japanese war. Their export business, stimulated when Japan took her yen off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) begun to find the effects of that shot in the arm wearing off. Several European countries have recently given themselves such shots in competition. Last week Czechoslovak firms, their currency freshly devalued, were reported to have...