Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonies. Such subject races as the Tahitians squeeze with docility. Not so the Arabs of French African Tunisia and Algeria. Nearly two years ago Tunisia's Resident General Marcel Peyrouton warned: "If Tunisia is to be saved, France must help. The protectorate must have the power to export wines, wheat and oils. . . . If we lose Tunisia our whole establishment in North Africa will be imperiled...
...order has replaced former disorder, and the restoration of historic buildings and civil beautification are proceeding on all sides. Unemployment has been reduced from 70,000 to 25,000 in two years, notwithstanding that the chief manufactures-toys, lead pencils, brushes and Diesel engines- largely depend on an export market that is now near the vanishing point...
...Perhaps, but a cat is a fur-bearing animal and the export of fur is a State monopoly...
Back to Moscow went Fluff's mistress, obtained a certificate from the State to export Fluff's fur, sped on to Germany where Nazi frontier guards charged $19 as a visa fee for admitting Fluff...
...demands, lately revived by British Liberals, for tariff cuts by His Majesty's Government, Mr. Chamberlain retorted: "I entirely differ with the suggestion that it is necessary to take off tariffs in order to restore export trade. . . . Some may be contemptuous over our small advances in exports, but I do not believe there is any other country-unless it be Japan- which can show a similar increase...