Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect but to save, last week, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes made nationwide headlines as Petroleum Administrator with a strong appeal that all exports of petroleum to the combatants in Ethiopia be barred. Mr. Ickes crossed his fingers by reminding reporters that he has "no authority at all" to regulate the export...
...both historically the parties of free trade and low tariff-were simultaneously in power. Reciprocal treaties, such as the U. S. has made with Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Sweden and Belgium, have done little to stir U. S. blood. But Canada normally sells nearly half her exports to the U. S., buys more than half her imports from the U. S. She does more trade with the U. S. than the whole of South America, as much as the whole of Asia. In theory, tariff trading between the U. S. and Canada could have magnificent results. Month ago Liberal King...
...received by the League of Nations since it asked nonLeague States to declare themselves on sanctions. Cabled the United States of Brazil, largest South American state: "NOT BEING A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BRAZIL DOES NOT PROPOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN MEASURES NOW ADOPTED BY THAT BODY." Re-Export Risk. Before adjourning for the week the League Sanctions Committee decided at Geneva that League States, even if bound not to sell directly to Italy after sanctions are applied, may sell to nonLeague States, even if the seller knows that the ultimate destination of the goods is Italy. Even this...
...Accordingly, the American Government is keeping informed as to all shipments consigned for export to both belligerents...
Died. Henry Herbermann, 57, beclouded shipping magnate; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Washington. A onetime railroad laborer, Herbermann bought American Export Lines (without ships) for a song, 18 freighters from the Shipping Board for less than the Board spent to put them in shape. Two years ago the Senate discovered that although the line had received nearly $27,000,000 in Federal benefits and subsidies, it still owed the Government $8,000,000, was in bad shape. Herbermann was unceremoniously demoted from president to vice president (TIME, March 12, 1934 et ante...