Word: export
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other ports. The steamship companies are glad to dock at Boston and would do so if it were not for the fact that they find no goods on the Boston wharves waiting for export. No ship can be expected to bring cargoes in to port and depart with an empty hold. This freight differential has so blocked the roads that feed the port of Boston that there can be no such exchange and nature has closed the harbor...
...ports. The result of this hearing is in doubt, but it is self-evident that Boston will never become a great port until ships coming there can get return cargoes; and until Boston has a differential equal to that of the other ports. It will never have goods for export on its wharves...
...larger part of the magazine is given over to leading articles contributed by business men and members of the Business School staff. They include papers on "The Taxation of Capital Gains" by Mr. G. O. May, senior partner of Price, Waterhouse & Co; "The Future of American Export Trade" by Dr. Julius Klein '13, director of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; "Bank Management and the Business Cycle" by O. M. W. Sprague '94, Professor of Banking and Finance in the Business School; "Bank Reserves" by Mr. F. H. Curtiss, chairman of the board and federal reserve agent...
...quit fooling ourselves. Let us decide what others of these debtors are good in part, but must be given ample time to pay; emphatically, let us figure whether the payment of these debts--which inevitably must mean a great increase in our import and a heavy decrease in our export trade--is going to prove an asset or a liability for American business...
...channel of international trade and exchange. The actual value of our foreign trade in 1921 was about half of what it had been the previous year, while the actual volume decrease in 1921 showed a 6 per cent decrease. The year 1920, however, brought an increase in value of exports over 1919 and this resulted from an increase in prices, whereas the pronounced decline of the value of our exports in 1921 was for the most part the result of falling prices. Last year Europe was financially unstable, and the progress in restoring economic stability was slow, but in England...