Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five weeks and 1,250,000 words of debate, the tidelands bill to grant seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries, sent it back to the House. ¶ Passed, over strong objections by Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, a bill authorizing the Export-Import Bank to write insurance against war damage and seizure on cotton and other American products shipped to friendly countries, sent it to the House. Taft called it "a very unfortunate extension of government in business . . . out of line with everything which the Republican Party has said it was going...
...lowering tariffs gradually in many areas, on the other hand, we could permit foreign products to compete with American on nearly even terms, until our imports would equal our exports; thus, the need for U.S. economic aid would diminish. Few workers would lose their jobs, for those in more prosperous foreign plants could buy more merchandise, and even the workers who were displaced could work in the healthier export industry...
...Sent Congress a reorganization plan for the Export-Import Bank, to abolish a cumbersome board of directors, concentrate management in a single director...
...business, for one, has its eyes fixed eagerly on the TV antennae and the washing machines. U.S. Negroes today have an annual income of $15 billion a year?almost as much as the national income of Canada, or more than the value of all U.S. export trade. Negro publications, whose advertising columns were until recently dominated by hair-straighteners and skin-bleachers, are now agleam with four-color ads of all the national brands?a dusky glamour girl smiling above a pack of Luckies, Negro men of distinction sipping Calvert, a Negro executive praising Remington typewriters. (Most advertising agencies...
...Author Tilsley has more than a dozen novels to his credit, but only one of them, Champion Road (1950), the story of a building promoter, has ever been picked for the export market. U.S. readers who choose British novels for their fine texture will not care for The Fortunate Man; those who like an older and lustier tradition well...