Word: exports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Export Fatigue." Energetic Dr. Schmitt, a keen sportsman and a Mounted Group Leader of Equestrian S. S. Troops, was brought to bed by nervous exhaustion. He had worn himself out on a whirlwind tour of the Fatherland to drive home the slogan: "Stimulate Exports as a National Duty...
This campaign was launched, according to Dr. Schmitt, because so many German firms are infected with "export fatigue." They have weakened in their efforts to push their sales in foreign markets where depreciated currencies have made ruling prices low in terms of gold or of the German mark. Cried Dr. Schmitt: "The error of concentrating on the home market in times like these must be uprooted! Exports must be forced by every means so as to secure for the Fatherland adequate foreign exchange...
...swing around Germany the dynamic Minister of Economics grew more and more high strung. Certain of his speeches amounted to exhorting German manufacturers to dump their goods abroad at less than cost, at any price they could get for the good of the Fatherland. Manufacturers too infected with "export fatigue" to obey were threatened with Government reprisals. Then Dr. Schmitt cracked under the strain and four Berlin doctors rushed...
...what Germany sells no longer brings in enough to buy what she must purchase abroad to feed her people and her factories. There would be one way out if she could get fresh credit?but she has scuttled her credit. There would be another way out if she could export foreign exchange or gold?but the gold cover behind German marks has fallen to less than 2% or "scarcely till money'' in the Reichsbank, which is frantically short of foreign exchange...
...Teheran should be repaved as fast as possible and for a month shop-keepers wailed as all traffic was obstructed by the pavers and customers kept at bay. Another order set up the Government Foreign Trade Monopoly, with iron rules that for everything imported Persia must make a corresponding export, or the import cannot be made. This has so strengthened the Treasury that with nearly all Great Powers off the gold standard, the King of Kings was said last week to be considering putting Persia back...