Word: export
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What does this mean? It means the smallest wheat crop in eight years. It means a wheat crop so small that it should just about equal our wheat consumption-perhaps fall slightly below it, leaving no surplus for export. It means that, even if wheat prices are low abroad, they will be high here. It means that farmers will get good prices for their wheat-even if they have not a great deal to sell...
...British Empire are today each others' best customers," but that, if the U. S. and other countries did not buy more from Britain, it would be impossible for the latter to continue to buy raw materials in large quantities; that, if Britain could not improve her export trade, it would, despite the best intentions, be impossible for her to continue paying her U. S. War debt. The resultant economic situation, the Ambassador thought, would not be fatal to the U. S., "but it will be unpleasant." From this, he argued that it was in the interests of the prosperity...
...Turkish proposal to make it obligatory for a Government to grant licenses for the export of arms to any recognized Government was opposed and referred to committee...
...prohibit traffic in arms, or to give a deterrent publicity to the traffic? This question led to argument between arms-producing and nonproducing nations. It was recalled that the U. S. had declined to sign the Saint Germain treaty? giving as reason that the prohibition of arms export except under license to responsible governments would automatically deprive revolutionaries whose cause was just of their right to revolt. It was contended that prohibition would make producing nations of the non-producers?the last thing to be desired. This question was thrashed out anew. The insistence of many nations made it clear...
...Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, head of the U. S. delegation, suggested prohibiting the export of "asphyxiating poisonous gases and analogous liquids or materials or devices." France, Brazil, Poland, Italy, Hungary, China and Japan backed the U. S. The remaining 35 nations were either hostile or silent. The proposal was referred to a subcommittee...