Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
Senator Black estimated that Export Steamship Corp., the first of 50 shipping companies on the committee's list for scrutiny, had received Federal subsidies and benefits worth $26,663,151 since 1928. Yet Export officials testified that their company was now "in worse condition" than in 1930, that it still owed the U. S. some $8,000,000 of which $1,200,000 was already past...
...Ford strike involved wages and hours of some 3,000 unorganized workers in Henry Ford's Chester, Pa. export assembly plant. Though Mr. Ford has not yet signed the automobile code (which binds him just the same) he pays his men a minimum wage (50? per hour) which is 7? higher than the trade agreement requires. But because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production, Mr. Ford did not have enough work to run his Chester plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck...
Comrade Gourevitch had just one answer to everything the Big Four asked Russia to do: "Why should we?" The Big Four insisted that the Soviet Union, which did not sign the World Wheat Pact clause to raise prices by limiting exports next year (TIME, Sept. 4), must accept and abide by a reasonable quota. The Pact was signed on the assumption that Russia could not possibly export more than 50,000,000 bu. The signatories limited themselves as follows: Canada 200,000,000 bu.; Australia 110,000,000; Argentina 105,000,000; U. S. 45,000,000, the Danube countries...
...Gentlemen," said Comrade Gourevitch last week, "Russia must have an export quota of at least 75,000,000 bushels-at least...