Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began with "Proposal No. 1" was extended last week through "Proposal No. 5." Under this body of Geneva proposals, League States would not only sell Italy no implements of war and extend her no credit but also would buy nothing from Italy and would mutually assist League States whose trade suffers from such self-denial. Blocked was a British move to have the League propose that its States sell nothing to Italy. On French initiative Geneva proposed instead that "key products" required as war materials be not sold to Italy and the list of these adopted as "Proposal...
...extension of credits to Fascist Italy. Bursting with suspicion, Russia's Foreign Commissar Litvinoff glared at Geneva's assembled Capitalist statesmen, told them tartly that the Soviet Union will keep vigilant watch and at the first sign that they are chiseling on sanctions will herself resume trade with Italy...
...France persuaded suspicious Emperor Menelik to let her build an Ethiopian railroad. Not till 1917 was the last spike driven. Since then the road has carried 75% of Ethiopia's foreign trade, and in 1933 returned a profit of 200 francs per transported ton to its French investors, who then owned 20,000 out of 34,000 shares. Part of Pierre Laval's deal with Benito Mussolini last January was the sale of 2.500 French shares of railroad stock to the Italian Government (TIME...
There are too many farmers in this country. Half their number could produce plenty of food and drink for the whole country, foreign trade not included. The solution in the past to this situation, which has existed everywhere ever since the Industrial Revolution, is that farmers have gradually shifted as a class into the big cities where growing, new industries absorbed them...
...failure to ensure export trade by keeping farm prices in competition with foreign countries leaves the agricultural problems worse for 1936. Mr. Johnson maintains. He also points out that the failure to promote increased business activity has been aided by the PWA-WPA projects and the destruction of business confidence...