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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impossible Gesture. The Englishman most exhilarated was Harry L. Dowsett, chairman of an East Anglian shipbuilding firm, who has been canvassing Moscow for weeks. Dowsett called his $17 million contract (the only one signed and sealed) the "biggest single order for merchant shipping ever placed," but he carefully neglected to mention that it was a 30% smaller version of an order that has been gathering dust in the British Board of Trade (and in the Kremlin) since he first accepted it a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trade Offensive | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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