Word: exporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival of her export trade, in which cotton fabrics formerly composed a tremendously important item. With cheaper...
What was he going to do about it? Well, he could subsidize industry instead of subsidizing the jobless, which would have the effect of increasing employment. He then catalogued all the forms which subsidies might take: "Either by bounties on production or on export or subsidies of specific contracts or orders mainly for export or subsidies for specially distressed districts, aid in the rates to take the burden off those who manufacture in the district, or a subsidy to bring down freight rates on railways...
...gold par with the dollar. But the real test of Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill's bold step in resuming gold payments this spring (TIME, May 11, COMMONWEALTH) will come this fall. Hitherto, Britain has not been forcd by her assumption of the full gold standard to export much gold -in fact, if anything, she has imported the yellow metal on balance from other countries...
...domestic films sent abroad measured 138,656,880 linear feet and were worth $5,417,745. Last year, similar exports were valued at $6,181,917 and totaled 170,347,342 feet. It is expected that 1925 will establish new high records for domestic footage exported. The money values here included represent only the cost of the actual positive prints shipped and not the income they produced from rentals. Total value of our foreign export business in films for this year is estimated at $75,000,000. Today, the foreign business of the large U. S. producers constitutes about...
...braver, more far-sighted, more lucky or more reckless than most, for he has just concluded negotiations with the Soviets for control of the Caucasian manganese ore properties (TIME, June 22, RUSSIA). The Harriman interests have acquired a 20-year grant to operate these mines, and exclusive right to export manganese. The Soviet will receive a royalty on all ore shipped, with the annual minimum figure...