Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jubilantly the Nazi press announced last week that Germany's July export figures set a new high for the Hitler regime-530,000,000 marks ($213,219,000), 10% better than last month, 34% better than July 1936. Nearly all exports were finished goods-iron products, machines, chemicals, textiles, automobiles. Imports last month amounted to 499,700,000 marks ($201,029,310), nearly equal to the record high of the preceding month. Germany thus showed an export balance of 30,300,000 marks...
...convention in Chicago last week gathered the men who control the third largest U. S. unmanufactured crop export. Largest is cotton, next is tobacco and third is the humble apple. To safeguard this precious fruit the International Apple Association met for the first time 42 years ago in Chicago's Hotel Sherman. Last week, 1,400 strong, the applemen were back at the Sherman with apple problems on their minds, Les Apple Trees Glacé on their tables and on their program plans for using the saga of Johnny Appleseed as a promotion scheme...
Last year's apple crop was worth $108,000,000. The value of this year's big crop will depend largely on the export market. Hence that was the chief concern of Chicago's great apple meeting. As recently as 1930, 21,000,000 bu. of U. S. apples were exported, mostly to England. Later such tremendous trade barriers rose that exports fell to 6,000,000 last season. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a message outlining the 16 reciprocal trade treaties which concern apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit...
...Soviet Government negotiated a deal with the versatile Hammers. They were forbidden to export their rubles, but they might buy with their profits antique furniture, jewels, paintings, etc. There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility. Knowing the political sympathies of its likeliest customer, the Hammer Galleries plasters its walls with double eagles and other imperial symbols...
...years the U. S. has been an importer of wheat, and for three years before that it sold practically no wheat abroad because the domestic price was artificially high. Today U. S. wheat at $1.20 per bu. in Chicago is the cheapest export wheat in the world. The world is short of wheat and the U. S. has more to sell than any other country. The first wheat boats from Chicago sailed last week...