Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy of my own ... I tried, as my predecessor had tried ... to persuade the Italians that they would be far better off if they would develop their own subsoil riches, and that this could be most quickly done, since they did not have the capital, with capital from abroad...
...effect of this artificially high base, says Balderston, is that it crimps U.S. competition abroad (see Foreign Competition) and causes job losses at home. "The recent behavior of prices suggests that American firms have not improved their ability to compete at home or abroad. You hear of business being lost to foreign firms. This should give us cause to ponder, particularly about losses in lines where we have traditionally had an advantage. And firms can price themselves out of domestic markets, too. This should lead us to question whether job opportunities would not be greater if some prices were lower...
...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...
...rise in imports, while worrisome to some industries, is no threat to most industry (imports are still only 4% of all U.S. manufacturers' sales). But it is a timely warning of the far greater challenge that the U.S. faces abroad. In the early postwar years the U.S. dominated world trade by virtue of its new plants and techniques, and lack of competition. But no longer. Now, thanks to the Marshall Plan and other U.S. aid programs, plus the spending of private business, plants just as efficient as those in the U.S. are turning out goods around the world. Britain...
...held shares of British Timken Ltd., Laborite Harold Wilson rose in the House of Commons to ask whether the trend was not "cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over recent years." Wrote the News Chronicle's Michael Gassman: "There should be no scare that the Yanks are coming. They are already here...