Word: exports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress met last week, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, his face stamped with anxiety, visited the White House. To President Hoover he stated his problem: Kansas granaries bulged with 40,000,000 bushels of 1928 surplus wheat held for export. It hung over the incoming crop, an imminent incubus. It could not be moved to seaboard with a transportation loss to the producers of 8? per bushel-a freight rate advantage enjoyed by Canada and Argentina on the wheat for the world market. Said Senator Capper: "This wheat must be moved in the next three months, as July wheat will...
...export debenture plan. They dutifully assembled all possible arguments, which President Hoover then consolidated in a ten-point broadside against the plan. In a public letter to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he contended that export debentures would: 1) Be a $200,000,000 per year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export...
...import tariff" and "tariff" are synonymous. Export tariffs are prohibited by the Constitution...
...same time, the Canadian Gov ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
...Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped from Sydney, was scored again on reaching London by judges whose lips soon grew greasy. Wiping his own thin, determined lips after the ordeal by butter...