Word: exportability
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Iceland in 1909 passed a law prohibiting alcoholic liquors. This was recently suspended for one year because Spain declined to buy the fish which is Iceland's chief export, unless that country would reciprocate by buying wine...
Hungary: A commercial treaty has just been signed with the Royal Hungarian Government, whereby Russia will export raw petroleum for the Hungarian refining plants, and Hungary will be allowed to participate in the industrial and agricultural rehabilitation of the country. British capital will back the Hungarians in these undertakings...
...result of the combination of several factors. It has been caused not only by an increase in wealth and in education, but by the automobile, which has increased the number of people in reach of those stores which sell the advertised articles. The loss of some of the export business of previous years has also led to the use of magazine advertising to stimulate the domestic market...
...Bolsheviki continue to export grain. Four million bushels await shipment on the Black Sea; another 1,200,000 bushels at Petrograd. Tho struggle between the peasants and the government has brought about the lamentable policy of exporting wheat while the people starve...
Before the war, gold exports could be avoided by raising the rediscount rate, and the swift rise of sterling exchange has caused discussion of the possibility of gold shipments to England lower than had generally been expected. Yet American bankers would be pleased rather than otherwise to witness such an export of gold, if conducted in an orderly manner. Moreover, all things considered, it is doubtful whether England can actually draw on our gold supply in the near future...