Word: exporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, U. S. steel makers may not combine to control the domestic market. They may combine, however, under the provisions of the Export Trade act (Webb-Pomerene law), to undersell foreign mills in foreign markets. Last week, the two principal producers, U. S. Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel Corp., controlling over 75% of the American export trade, proposed through their export subsidiaries* the formation of an association to market all U. S. iron and steel products abroad...
...Steel Products Co., Bethlehem Steel Export Corp...
Reasons for Alarm. Production of grain in the Soviet Union is now almost up to the pre-Revolutionary level, yet there is an acute shortage of grain in the cities, and so little is left for export that that figure now stands at less than one twentieth of the 10,000,000 tons exported in average Romanov years...
Remedies. "Must we turn back?" cried President Kalinin. "Some people are drawing that inference. . . . We must remedy the situation! After ten years of our present policy we have reached a point where we must realize that the shortage of grain for urban or export consumption is not the result of accident or poor crops...
...cars] I should judge to be about 4,500,000 cars per annum. Figuring the life of a car as about five years, replacements should bring the annual normal output to about 5,000,000 cars. This figure has not yet been reached. . . .† Last year General Motors' export business [193,830 cars & trucks worth wholesale $171,991,251] equaled in volume the entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business of today. Toward Henry Ford, Mr. Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude...