Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped," said Sir John, "it can only be done by international agreement. . . . Existing contracts must be respected, but subject to this, the Government has decided, as from today, pending international consultation such as I hope for, the Government will not authorize nor issue licenses for the export either to China or Japan of [arms]. . . . The action of the Japanese Army does not in the least resemble the invasion by a foreign force of another country. Japan has exceptional rights to certain strips of territory...
James David Mooney, president of General Motors Export Co., was re- elected president of American Manufacturers Export Association. Onetime reporter, onetime assistant editor of American Machinist, Mr. Mooney entered General Motors as assistant to Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. He was put into its Remy division, jumped to president, then shifted to general manager of the export division. When he became head of the export division in 1922, GM was selling abroad about 20,000 cars a year. By 1929 he had shot this figure to nearly 300,000, was selling cars from 23 export centres to nearly every country...
...immigration quota of 50 per year. Duty-free sugar imports to the U. S. will be limited to 850,000 tons per year, cocoanut oil to 200,000 tons, cordage fibre to 3,000,000 Ib. To give Filipinos a taste of the tariff, collection of an island export tax equal to 5% of the U. S. tariff rate on different goods will begin in the sixth year, rise to 25% in the tenth. On July 4 following the ten-year period the President will proclaim the Philippines a sovereign commonwealth and the U. S. will withdraw all civil...
What the Equalization Fee was in 1927, the Export Debenture in 1929. Price Stabilization by the Farm Board in 1931, Voluntary Domestic Allotment is to become in 1933-the phrase-of-the-moment on farm relief. Unlike the Fee and the Debenture, it will probably become reality. Whether it will work better than Price Stabilization is the pudding President-elect Roosevelt must prove. Last week Chairman Marvin Jones called his House Committee on Agriculture together to start hearings on his Domestic Allotment bill. Thirty-seven representatives of the National Grange, the Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers' Union...
...usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded machine-gun mount. Reason: Government regulations forbid the export of any model, less than one year old, of fighting equipment built...