Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of resettling white Rhodesians in Western Europe and South Africa, perhaps with American aid. For his part, Vorster sought to prevent the isolation of South Africa and win acceptance for its policies. In particular, Pretoria would like an end to the U.S. arms embargo and the granting of Export-Import Bank loans...
...exports swelled for the fourth consecutive month, making a cumulative increase since the start of the year of more than 22%. Sales abroad for certain items increased dramatically: autos up 62%, household electronics (television sets, tape recorders, stereo systems) up 55%. An important factor, in addition to the U.S. recovery, has been Japan's customary willingness to sell anything to anybody. One hot item: the export of entire factories to Middle Eastern and Communist countries...
...mercantilism, whose chief objective is the enrichment of the mother country at the expense of its colonies, Britain's leaders tried to make America serve as the Empire's farm, forest and mine, while Britain was to be its factory, financier and protector. Parliament's decrees that certain American exports could be shipped only to or through Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started to compete with English factories, Parliament likewise restricted American hat and cloth manufacturing. "The erection...
Britain banned the export of all arms to America two years ago, and the powder in Continental muskets now comes mostly from France, which has closed its eyes to the activities of both European and American gunrunners. So far, however, supply has not even begun to keep up with demand, and American soldiers are severely rationed, with a daily allowance at times of only nine musket rounds per man, v. 60 for each redcoat. This shortage has given rise to a sizable and complex business...
...father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating West Indian indigo. At first she suffered setbacks from frost and insect blight, but within seven years, she was able to produce an indigo dye of sufficient quality to export to England. Thanks to Eliza's pioneering, indigo was one of the southern colonies' greatest exports last year. South Carolina alone produced a crop worth about...