Word: import
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authorized Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones to open a $10,000,000 credit for Finland through the Export-Import Bank and RFC. With this first material U. S. aid, the Finns may buy "agricultural surpluses and other civilian supplies...
...super-gloom was by Emil Helfferich, onetime "Maritime Adviser to the Führer" who became board chairman of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this is done, "then we need...
...smelting was cautiously getting off to a new start. Two famed U. S. copper interests-Phelps Dodge (No. 3 U. S. copper unit) and American Metal Co., Ltd. (No. 1 U. S. investor in huge Rhodesian copper mines, formerly No. 2 metal refiner) had independently contracted to import several thousand tons of ore from the rundown, low-grade mines of Bolivia...
...estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local French authorities for the loan of a few peasants to ill treat...
Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped...