Word: exports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iceland, as extensive as Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
...prelude to a prediction astounding from so august an authority, to wit, that every country of Western Europe, including France and Italy, will have returned to a gold exchange basis by the end of next year. This stability of international exchange is of high importance to packers, who now export, a third of a billion dollars yearly in meat products and byproducts...
...process of exchange, that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their prosperity is a condition of our own wellbeing. If we check their dealings, their power to pay their debts diminishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced. Restricted imports involve restricted exports, and no nation can afford to lose its export trade...
Restrictions. Emphasis was given to Secretary Hoover's fulminations against European restrictions on the export of raw materials, last week, by an announcement from the British Colonial office that their policy will be continued for another year with respect to restrictions on the rubber exports from Malaya and Ceylon. Ergo, U. S. consumers will pay a higher price for rubber...
...stressed felicitously the concord of Science and Government. † Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. *This speech marked a turning point in the victorious struggle of Disraeli against Gladstone for the export of Church-of- Englanders...