Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition. Prime Minister Bennett during his campaign threatened to have repealed for economic reasons the new Canadian law forbidding the export of liquor to the U. S. Should Minister MacNider fail to avert such repeal, the whole Prohibition smuggling question would come up afresh between the two countries...
...Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur...
...Camden, N. J. and the yards of New York Shipbuilding Co. went Mrs. Hoover last week to help American Export Steamship Corp. launch its first of four 8,700-ton vessels built with U. S. loans under the new Merchant Marine Act. A whistle tooted; Mrs. Hoover put down her roses, took a basketed bottle of spring water, cracked it smartly over the moving prow, exclaimed: "I christen thee Excalibur." Declared the first lady: "I got a real thrill when my hand touched the bow of that powerful vessel." Later in the week at Camp May Flather near Harrisonburg...
...They felt that he was afraid to come out strongly against the Hawley-Smoot tariff. They said that he was too amenable to U. S. interests in the projected St. Lawrence waterways treaty. They knew that he had passed the U. S.-inspired law, objectionable to Canadians, forbidding the export of liquor...
...cars & trucks sold in Europe are either imported from the U. S. or made in U. S. plants abroad. Last year the figures for European car sales are estimated to have been 288,000 units against 553,000 foreign ones. To the U. S. this constitutes the fourth greatest export trade* while to automotive companies it often means the margin between profits and deficits. Of course no European nation would openly discriminate against the U. S. and thus court official U. S. action. But if Germany, for example, limited imports to 1,000 cars per year, by far the greatest...