Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ocean-going vessels have been coming into Chicago since 1931, when the Swedish freighter, Anna, docked there. But the real expansion in the trade developed after the war, when French and German lines joined Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian shippers in the service. In 1947, the export-import total was 66,774 tons; last year it rose to an estimated 225,000 tons. All the ships are running with capacity loads. One reason there are not still more ships in the trade: Great Lakes ports are short the docks to handle them without wasteful waiting...
...Sidney Weil, 52, treasurer and general manager of American Safety Razor Corp., second largest manufacturer of safety razors and blades (first: Gillette), became president, replacing J. B. de Mesquita, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Weil joined American Safety Razor in 1926 as export manager, and by 1943 was vice president and sales director. He stepped up to executive vice president and director...
...both Asia and America. Ex-Labor Minister Harold Wilson went bustling off to Moscow in search of timber supplies for Britain's housing drive; Bevanite Sydney Silverman stayed at home and told the House of Commons that "nothing can be more ridiculous than [our] straining every nerve . . . to export goods to the one market [the U.S.] in all the world that does not need them . . . whereas all over the world there are [Communist] markets waiting . . ." Even Rab Butler, the commonsensical Tory Chancellor who has done much to put Britain back on its feet, worried that a Republican Congress might...
...lowering them, most free traders would want reciprocal concessions, such as removal of heavy foreign export taxes on hides, coffee, etc.) ¶Simplify tariff schedules, which now cover some 8,000 rates, and recodify confusing customs regulations which help keep out imports...
Like all other people, the British must cat. But their tight little island does not produce enough foot to supply them all, so they have to import the deficit. To import they must also export. They export, among other things, movies. A good Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier production is probably good for quite a few main dishes. But there is also the dessert--or "sweet"--to be considered, and perhaps even an after-dinner smoke, blended from Virginia tobacco. To make a life of austerity bearable such pictures as I Believe in You are made and exported...