Word: foreign
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
European Bystanders. The economic life of Europe's neutral nations was partly strangled not only by these changes but by force of arms. Switzerland, completely surrounded by combatants before the War was over, found itself on the verge of starvation for lack of foreign wheat. Only the end of the War in 1918, plus an exceptionally good harvest, saved the Swiss from famine. But armies eat chocolate, and Swiss chocolate manufacturers did a thriving business, for the Allies saw that they obtained raw materials. Swiss peasants who owned woodlots found they had a good market for fuel. Electric power...
Brazil's coffee and rubber business went to pot. She made an enforced about-face and began to export kidney beans, sugar, beef, manganese. Before the end of the War her foreign trade had contracted 22% in dollar volume and 46% in physical volume but she had an export balance of $70,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year...
Beau Geste (Paramount), an attempt to give voice to Herbert Brenon's 1926 silent classic of the French Foreign Legion, follows its original so relentlessly that it resembles nothing so much as a talking mummy. Archeologists will recognize scene for scene the progress of the Geste brothers from happy Brandon Abbas to unhappy Morocco, while younger cinemaddicts are following less than breathlessly the mystery over who stole that sapphire of sapphires, the Blue Water. Both will be apt to find the fraternal devotion of the Gestes rather mawkish, Actor Gary Cooper something short of the Beau ideal. Although...
...German Gold and Foreign Exchange Position. . . . The registration statements have not been adequately amended to set forth requested information vital to American investors respecting present German resources of gold and foreign exchange...
...Revenue Act of 1938 Congress put a prohibitive excise tax of 3? a pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built...