Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President went on to suggest, specifically, revision of the neutrality laws. he might also have cited the loan of $25,000,000 to China, which is stimulating Britain and France to grant similar loans; he might have cited the shipment of 600,000 barrels of American wheat to Spain" on the basis of need"--where need is principally Loyalist--and which has enabled that army to avoid surrender this winter. Peaceful methods such as these keep military force in the background, make it, literally and theoretically, a last resort...
Last spring, to the embarrassment of the State Department, Secretary Ickes refused to permit the export of a promised shipment of helium* for use in German dirigibles. As this act was recalled to Nazi minds last month by the reshipment of 200 empty steel bottles from Houston, Texas to Germany, Secretary Ickes bobbed up again with a speech before the Cleveland Zionist Society. Title: "Esau, the Hairy Man." Excerpts...
Ignoring Arita's veiled threat, the U. S. Treasury Department announced last week the indefinite extension of an arrangement with China which permits China, when caught short of cash between her monthly shipments of silver to the U. S., to make and pay for purchases in this country by borrowing from the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund on the security of Chinese gold held in U. S. banks (estimated to be somewhere around $110,000,000). When China's next shipment of silver arrives in the U. S., she sells it to the Treasury...
...later turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment. It remained uncertain whether the missing money had been stolen or whether it had never existed-possibly fictitious profits had been built up merely in order to collect commissions on non-existent sales...
Heart of the North (Warner Bros.). The Arctic Queen is steaming up the Yukon River with a shipment of gold and furs. And then? Bandits in fur caps remove its cargo. And then? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who keep their coats on even when paddling canoes, contrive to catch the bandits...