Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When we took Phnom-Penh, there were 3 million people and we had a terrible problem feeding them. The solution for us was to distribute the population of the capital to each of the provinces. The rice is growing well now and next year we will have enough for export...
...much publicized grain robbery that has plagued the nation's export shipments in recent years has resulted in indictments of 52 individuals and four corporations. Last week one of the nation's largest grain exporters, Bunge Corp., became the first of those companies to accept the judicial consequences. Bunge, a privately held firm, pleaded no contest to a federal charge that it had for almost twelve years, until June 1973, short weigh ted ship cargoes at its two grain elevators in Destrehan, La., and Galveston, Texas. The company also offered no defense against a charge that it used...
Wavering public trust in Government was jolted again last week by a pair of scandals, one involving top Pentagon brass, the other Henry Kearns, former (1969-73) chairman of the Export-Import Bank. The common element was the charge of crossing the fine line that is supposed to separate business dealings from Government deliberations...
Newer Frontier. There is little doubt among oilmen now that the North Sea will pay off for its biggest gamblers, although just how much remains to be seen. For whatever oil it has left over for export, Britain should find a ready market in Western Europe; about one-fifth of Europe's energy may eventually come from the North Sea. Norway is already feeling pressure to speed up development from industrialists eager to spur the economy, and it probably will do so in the chillier, deeper and more treacherous waters above the 62nd parallel where even richer oil deposits...
...capital of the activity is Aberdeen, an outward-looking city of 180,000 long accustomed to foreigners through export of herring and skills, both engineering and nautical: Aberdonians officered much of the Russian navy in 18th century czarist times. But nothing in Aberdeen's gregarious history has quite prepared it for the influx of hundreds of oil-related companies (300 have operations there) and thousands of oil workers from around the world, mainly the U.S. Last week 20,000 oil people were in town, including 7,000 visitors from as far away as Houston and Tokyo, for "Offshore Europe...