Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were trying to sell Moline plows. One piece of advice that seemed to crop up wherever Mr. Roosevelt turned was that as Secretary of Agriculture he should get Henry Agard Wallace...
Like Bulgaria's Boris (who was in London before Munich), Greece's George and Rumania's Carol, Yugoslavia's Paul has this simple situation well in mind. Like them he knows the difference between good money and bad, between hard British sterling and phony Nazi export marks. He would naturally rather sell his corn, fruit, iron and bauxite to Britain than to Germany. What probably took him to London, and what had taken Boris, Carol and George, was to see if they could induce Britain to offer more good sterling for more Balkan products. The British...
Although she know Americans in Turkey and mot many on the American Export Liner, Exeter, on the way across, this is Miss Pishmish's first visit to America. When asked what she thought of the feasibility of bringing German student refugees to the United States and to Harvard especially, she reapplied, "Although I am not a refugee, speaking as a foreign student I think it a splendid idea,. I should like to help it possible...
...American Export, founded in 1919 and reorganized in 1925, has had as many ups & downs as a ground swell. In its early days it was always near the rocks. Since 1930, Government subsidies have helped keep its books in the black every year. Net of $1,007,213 last year was due largely to Government subsidies, plus the fact that the line's 18 small ships (none over 9,350 tons) share a virtual monopoly with the Italian Lines on the hemisphere's second richest trade route...
...future the stubby Ex-boats will carry delicate weather instruments as well as tractors, copper, hides and hemp, marble, oil and tin. The instruments will record weather conditions for Export's year-old subsidiary-American Export Airlines, Inc. If their data gives as clear a green light as last week's stock issue, test flights will start next spring with a Consolidated flying boat...