Word: earner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suez Canal subtracts another $5,000,000. Even if the canal reopens, Cairo's ban on U.S., British and West German shipping will still deprive the government of $1,000,000 a week in tolls. Then there is cotton, Egypt's second biggest foreign-exchange earner after the canal. Because there is no money to spare for urgently needed insecticides, leafworms threaten to wipe out 30% of this year's crop. In desperation, the government sent almost 500,000 schoolchildren into the fields last week to pick leafworms off the plants. "We have yet another aggression...
...rebels are fighting for full independence from the north. Northern Moslems are dark-skinned people who are either nomadic or live in mud-brick houses and work on plantations, growing the cotton that is the Sudan's only big cash earner abroad. In contrast, the flat-nosed blacks in the south live in thatched huts in the rain forests and on the savannas, are largely tied to a subsistence agriculture. Many of the tribesmen living in the south are converted Christians who feel that the regime tries to make them bow to the will-and many of the religion...
...sure, Rhodesia has been unable to sell the bulk of its tobacco crop -the nation's biggest cash earner-because of the sanctions. Nevertheless, most farmers have got rid of enough to cover their production costs. In any case, the loss may be a boon, since it is forcing Rhodesians to diversify their crops. Whatever their impact, sanctions have served only to make the whites more adamant...
...drastic measures will cut consumption and restrain an economy that has been living beyond its means, thus helping to stabilize the pound. Or so the government hopes. On the other hand, there may be dangerous side effects. British auto sales abroad are the country's biggest earner of foreign exchange, brought home $2.2 billion last year. Because of the sharp drop in sales at home, British automakers may well have to raise their export prices to uncompetitive levels or sell their cars abroad at a loss. In any case, the leading exporter, British Ford, expects that this year Britain...
...with paradoxes. Its numerous critics note, among other things, that candy floss makers are given the tax break provided for manufacturers, but export agents, who contribute directly to Britain's earnings abroad, are taxed as service types. The whole tourist industry, Britain's fourth largest foreign-exchange earner, will be penalized as a service enterprise...