Word: exportability
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...there was a wide array of skin creams at toiletries counters. At the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition, I asked a girl guide who used all the perfumes and lipsticks - in twelve shades of pink, purple-red and orange - that were on display. She tittered and said that they were for export. Later, a male member of the exhibit's revolutionary committee explained that "Chinese girls like natural beauty...
...agreement in connection with the extension of American basing rights in the Azores. What we did was to offer the loan of a research vessel, a grant of $1,000,000 for education, $5,000,000 in nonmilitary surplus equipment, and PL-480 credits of $30 million for the export of surplus agricultural commodities. Export-Import Bank financing may also be available. The $400 million figure frequently mentioned in this connection relates only to projects under consideration by the Portuguese, no commitment having been made by the U.S. as to amount. "Military supplies" are nowhere included in the assistance package...
Then Frelimo, through the offices of Kenneth Kaunda. President of Zambia, told Italy that if the Italian government guaranteed export credits for Italian firms participating in Cobora Bassa, all Italian property in Zambia would be expropriated and nationalized. The Italians backed down. The Portuguese and South Africans flew off to Bonn and Paris, where they got increased backing. Political activity in Germany and France has not yet reached the level that it did in Sweden and Britain. So those companies are still involved...
...grander scale, they export class contradictions from this country to the Third World. Every person in this country participates indirectly in the exploitation of people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We have an inflated standard of living as a result of that exploitation. What the Third World revolutionary groups are doing is sending those class contradictions back, because when those Third World countries are free, the standard of living in this country is going to drop. Be prepared for that: understand the consequences of what we are about...
Growing protectionist tendencies for finished goods in the United States and a rapidly increasing foreign debt have caused the Brazilian government to attract American firms to manufacture components for export and assembly elsewhere. The Ford Motor Company has decided to transfer its production of motors for Pinto models to Brazil in order to avoid high labor and tax costs in Britain, Alves pointed...