Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft salesmen had left London, disgruntled by the cool assurances of civil servants that Britain was making and would make all fighting aircraft she needed. Under Congress' so-called Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes if there is "reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation. ..." Amid uncertainty as to the application of this act the Vancouver branch of U. S. Boeing Airplane...
...beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas. Farmers do not know whether their crop is bought by foreigners or by workers who earn their money making goods for export. Only a few exporters can see any direct profit from trade reciprocity, but every farmer and businessman...
...Bank of England. The price of gold for this system is set on a day-to-day basis, the U. S. starting the ball rolling with gold at $35 per oz., less a tiny handling charge. No longer is the U. S. Treasury licensing private traders to export gold on their...
...Tariff benefits on export crops. Any student of U. S. farm legislation could quickly recognize these principles as the basis of Peek's 15 years of agricultural agitation, as the basis of the McNary-Haugen bill he instigated and lobbied through Congress to be twice vetoed by President Coolidge. In 1932, said Mr. Peek last week, he rushed to the Roosevelt bandwagon because these same principles were stated in the Democratic platform and reiterated by Nominee Roosevelt in campaign speeches. "I was fooled by President Roosevelt's promises; I believe that Governor Landon is the kind...
...King is proud of her. Anyone bold enough to object to her being at the royal table would be quickly disgraced." In shipping $50,000 worth of this year's finest U. S. silver fox pelts to a "royal purchaser" in London last week, the Manhattan fur export firm's owner Julius Green hinted: "Some people take it for granted these silver foxes are a gift to Mrs. Simpson." Meanwhile Mr. Simpson was transferring his clothes from the Simpson flat to the Guards Club in London last week and Mrs. Simpson on October 7 was to move into...