Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step up immediate trade, the U. S. Export-Import Bank lent Chile...
...what the U. S. had left in the way of wits, worldly goods and political institutions, looked impressive. No catalogue could communicate the wealth of U. S. natural resources, no two experts could wholly agree about the maze of surplus commodities, farm income, legislative measures, mortgages, Government loans, the export market, yield per acre, drought and erosion, that is known as the agricultural problem. But in simple, physical terms, the U. S. still had, after ten years of Depression...
...have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...
...gift to U. S. warehouses runs at something like $1,000,000,000 of unconsumed production. Meanwhile, standard domestic consumption indices (like department store sales) are doing no booming at all. Even Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck have suddenly lost their 1938-39 oomph. Only a real export boom seemed likely to save the U. S. from some pretty drastic inventory trouble...
...place where money was going was into such ordinarily dead issues as coal stocks, which nothing short of a World War could volatilize. This World War, by pushing Germany and England out of the world coal market, was bringing U. S. coal companies some pretty fair export business. In addition, if anybody stood to profit momentarily from industrial forward buying, they did: they couldn't fill their orders. Pittsburgh Coal was traded at $8½ (up almost 300% from $2¼), Consolidation Coal at $6¾ (up over 500% from...