Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative gain that may be effected in the December- March session of Congress will be the insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead...
...hammers and drills, which he had tried in vain to sell in Chicago. His ability, he needed not to point out, had made him Wartime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, president of Emergency Fleet Corp., onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, president of the American Manufacturers' Export Association...
...result is one of those famous 'vicious circles.' Even in case our export trade yielded us a surplus sufficient to pay the three billion marks we owe every year, our creditors would still be paying out of their own pockets a large part of what they were collecting from us. This indisputable fact in my opinion, leads to only one solution. We cannot keep up for long meeting the demands of the Young plan...
...Export Petroleum Association, Inc. was formed to handle the export business of members. Prices are changed only by a unanimous vote. Large exporters have recently contended that export prices are too high, fail to reflect the supply & demand situation, hinder selling in foreign markets. Some members have been interested in keeping the price high. A few oil companies not belonging to the Association have been underselling it. Last week Export Petroleum Association suddenly withdrew its price schedule; each company will now handle its own exporting, compete with other U. S. companies abroad...
...British public is using cars which are less efficient and less comfortable than those used by the public of any other country! Britain seems to have no automobile export trade except for high-priced or midget cars and presumably never will as long as the system of taxation compels British manufacturers to design inefficient machines...