Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signers of the agreement turned out to be poor guessers. The war in Korea sent prices skyrocketing far above the $1.80-a-bushel ceiling. To fulfill its commitments, the Federal Government had to pay U.S. wheat exporters a subsidy averaging 62? a bushel-the difference between the export price and the U.S. market price. The agreement, when it expires next July, will have cost the U.S. almost $600 million in subsidies, which are now running at the rate of $130 million annually...
...Cross, managing director of Britain's Essex Aero, Ltd., believes that magnesium bodies are far superior to plastic, which take longer to fabricate. The lightness of magnesium bodies makes possible higher speeds and quicker acceleration for cars Cross hopes to have his magnesium car in production for export to the U.S some time this year. Price: around...
...interim year while a commission studies the entire trade problem. In a message to Congress he rightly emphasized the importance of reciprocal trade and lower tariff barriers as a solvent in the problem of European defense, and as a badly needed bolster to several declining export economics...
...downward trend of Israel's inflated economy, last year's devaluation intensified it. Devaluation cut the value of the currency enough so that domestic prices rose sharply, but not enough to give Israeli products a competitive chance in foreign markets. Result: instead of the hoped-for export boom, the import-export gap widened in 1952 from a dangerous 7 to 1 to a disastrous...
Blundell arrived in Kenya 18 years ago as a "farm pupil." During the war he bought the site of his present farm. It was virgin bush. Today it is a trim model farm, with neat contours and terraces, fields of asparagus (canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...