Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the stubborn Dutchmen, the highest hurdle in restriction's path was native production. The nut-brown native taps when he pleases, and tales of tall plans are just so much English or Dutch to him. The conference mounted this hurdle by restricting not actual production but exports. The 1934 limit is set at 1,019,000 tons but under the guidance of an international committee the limit will rise about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo...
...trade treaty will help Haiti to export more goods to the U. S., notably...
...basker from Baffin Land goes on to tell us that "the problems are not virtually our own" and that we will "have to ferret out insidious propaganda." Surely Mr. Wilson saw these obvious facts as early as 1914. But Mr. Stoddard gets more practical, he says "that we should export arms only f.o.b., so that ships flying our flag would not be involved." Similarly Americans should only sail in American boats, lest they get hurt; otherwise it's their own fault, and the government should forget them. Such naivete is dangerous. When an American or British ship was torpedoed...
...White Star liners end in ic and Cunarders in ia, so ships of the American Export Lines begin in Ex (Executive, Exochorda, Excalibur). Last week one of them sloshed her way up to Smyrna. The Exilona was going to bring an ex-tycoon home from exile: the U. S. Government had won its long battle to bring Samuel Insull back for trial...
...markets would of itself relegate the armament industry to a far less significant position in national affairs than it now occupies. The production of armaments should be regulated in each country to the point where it is just sufficient to meet the country's defensive needs; further production for export should be regarded as a crime against civilization...