Word: exports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scot MacDonald who retired to his country home at Lossiemouth and took a hands-off attitude fortnight ago, when half-a-million Lancashire cotton operatives struck (TIME, Aug. 12), thus crippling Britain's largest export industry...
...requires, under its navigation laws, no clearance for pleasure craft under five tons-the category into which most rum runners fall-bound for a foreign port. For months U. S. officials have been trying to persuade Canada to deny liquor clearance papers, to make it illegal in Canada to export liquor to the U. S. Last week Minister Euler met this U. S. request with a counter-proposition: "If the U. S. will insist upon clearance for their own boats to enable them to check and control their own people, the Canadian Government is quite ready to consider any further...
Tall, calm, quiet Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., is widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever...
Steadily proceeding with the expansion of its entertainment business, Radio Corp. of America last week secured for itself distribution in Great Britain. Through RKO Export Corp., sub-subsidiary of Radio Corp., direct subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc., an arrangement was made with a British distributing company, Ideal Films, Ltd., to handle the 1929-30 output of Radio Pictures. Ideal Films, Ltd. is an affiliate of Gaumont, the British chain which controls more than 300 theatres in the most populous British cities...
...added that General Motors had no intention of shipping into the U. S. cars from its foreign plants, that these plants were made to supply cars to the countries in which they were located. He saw no danger of a foreign car invasion. Next came R. I. Roberge, Ford export manager. A peculiar aspect of the Roberge testimony was his insistence that he spoke for Son Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought about auto tariffs. Asked why Henry Ford had not appeared, Mr. Roberge suprisingly replied that Henry Ford had received no invitation. After these qualifications...