Word: exporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veterans requiring vocational training. Veterans receiving medical care from the Bureau at the close of the year numbered 22,610. ¶ The Interstate Commerce Commission, which asked that Congress make workable Section 28 of the Merchant Marine Act which would authorize reduced railroad rates on products shipped for export. The report declared that: 1) Few railroads were earning the 5¾% return on investment allowed under the railway act; 2) some $11,000,000 has been reported due the Government under the recapture clause by which the Government takes one-half of what the railways earn over...
...motion for the rejection of the Anglo-Russian Treaty was also laid upon the table. The motion read : That this House will be ready to support any practical and businesslike steps for promoting Anglo-Russian trade and for protecting British interests in Russia and to approve the use of export credits and trade facilities for assisting trade with Russia on the same terms as with other foreign countries and our dominions; and, while welcoming a definition of fishing areas and fishing rights on the Russian coast, it is unable to approve the treaty which, instead of providing a genuine contribution...
This year, according to the Department of Agriculture, only five countries are expected to have important amounts of wheat for export: Canada, 200 to 180 million bushels; the U. S., 180 to 165 million bushels; Argentina, 170 to 150 million; Australia, 85 to 75 million; India, 35 to 25 million; all other countries, 15 to 5 million. The total thus will run between 635 and 600 million bushels...
...Dawes' suggestion for a com mission to investigate and recommend remedies. "It has not even the merit of novelty!" he exclaimed. "I can smell the moth balls now." He concluded: "We undertake: "To adopt an international policy of such cooperation as will reestablish the farmer's export market by restoring the industrial balance in Europe. . . . "To adjust the tariff so that the farmer and all classes can buy again in a competitive market...
...particular-began to rise. During last week, they continued to rise; and with them rose the tempers of the industrial workers in various parts of Russia. The true reason for the attitude of the industrial workers was to be found in the Government's declared policy of exporting grain. In order to maintain the advantages which have been secured from foreign recognition during the year, the Moscow Government declared it was indispensable to the country's in terests that grain should be exported. What was meant was that exports were necessary to balance imports; otherwise the returning foreign...