Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accidents were not lacking last week when the first skirmish of the neutrality war of 1937 was fought. Arrayed on one side was 1) Robert Cuse, naturalized Latvian of Jersey City who had forced the State Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley...
Ornamental pheasants, which bear a resemblance to their gamebird cousins, are native to most of Asia and parts of the East Indies. Chief export centres are Singapore and Calcutta. Prices range from $10 or $15 per pair for common Goldens or Lady Amhersts to $250 for a pair of rare, shimmering blue-green-gold-copper-crimson Impeyans. Except for a few jungle varieties, the birds are hardy, need nothing in the way of quarters but a brush pile and windbreak...
...first he discussed the case of Mr. Cuse who forced the State Department willynilly to grant him a license to export airplanes to Spain (see col. 3). The President declared that 90% of U. S. business was willing to give up profits for the sake of preserving absolute neutrality and only a 10% minority was out for selfish profit regardless of its effect upon the country. He referred approvingly to the Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid...
...laws may be passed in the future, the fact remains that my company has purchased commercial airplanes for shipment to a country with which we are not at war, on the strength of and in compliance with the existing laws of our country, and the license for their export was granted accordingly...
...last week he was sitting in his new house near the German capital and showed signs of developing into a good Berliner. His big Germanic gesture as 1937 opened was to place 10,000,000 Dutch guilders ($5.475,000) at the disposal of Dutch farmers so that they might export their superfluous green stuffs, fruit and cattle to Germany without loss to themselves and with cost to food-starved Nazis much reduced. This "non-political and exclusively humanitarian" gift received the special commendation of The Netherlands Government...