Word: exports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began the exchange of shots by observing in his set speech that "with very rare exceptions there is no British discrimination against the rest of the world in the export of raw materials, and the much criticized rubber restrictions have no element of discrimination in favor of Great Britain, but were introduced to ensure continuity of supply of a product essential to modern civilization...
Underground Motif. Among potent U. S. import-export houses information circulated last week, that the German delegation at Geneva has been instructed to sound out the U. S. delegation upon the possibility of an understanding between the U. S. Administration and the German chemical and other trusts. Prospectively the question will be asked whether lower U. S. tariffs can possibly be obtained on certain German goods, in return for favors of an equal value to U. S. businessmen from the German trusts...
...Public Works, the institution created by order of the Italian Government to finance Italian shipbuilding, tried to borrow $12,000,000 in Manhattan last week, and simultaneously $8,000,000 in London. The Italian Government is now considering the creation of a stock company, under patronage of the Export Institute, to give commercial credits to exporters of Italian goods...
...president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during his second year with Metropolitan he made his knowledge pay. He wrote up policies worth more than $1,000,000 and has exceeded that sum yearly since. Last week Metropolitan bookkeepers told...
Tariff. "Industry has acquired an export-surplus problem nearly as acute and difficult as that of agriculture. It is therefore less interested in the tariff than it formerly was. There is a large financial and industrial interest which already holds that American industry is outgrowing tariff protection. It would be in the highest degree unwise for farmers at this time to launch an attack on the tariff without carefully considering the possibility that in the near future they may need it more than any other economic group in the country...