Word: exports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze by Malvina Hoffman. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, herself a sculptor of first rank, preferred Edward McCartan's bronze Fountain. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the good Boston doctor-philosopher, decided on The Grand Pitch, by George C. Hallowell. Other paintings and sculptures in the first...
...defense of the Dutch East Indies. The Netherlands owns a colonial empire east of Singapore that includes the huge islands of Java, Sumatra and portions of Borneo. The area of the empire is 733,642 square miles, the population 50,000,000 and in 1921 its total import and export trade amounted to roughly 2,500,000,000 guilders...
Soviet officials announce that Russia will be able to export grain on the world market through the Black Sea, and to a certain extent through the Baltic ports. Prices will be based on American wheat prices. The estimated value will be 6,300,000 gold rubles ($3,150,000), indicating an export of at least 3,000,000 bushels. Pravda, Communist journal gloomily announces that another famine is impending...
...world today, and that the making of Federal Reserve rates must in the future be considered largely from the angle of their probable international effects. London cannot challenge New York's financial leadership until sterling returns to its par of $4.86, and until Britain allows the free export of gold...
...French. The Wilhelmstrasse had the speech translated into the principal foreign languages. German merchants abroad offered to distribute copies of the speech. Cases of Cuno speeches left Berlin bound for the outer world. They arrived at the frontier. The German customs officials sent them back to Berlin, because no export license had been issued. This is very necessary. Cuno had the law passed...