Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mechanization is the main secret of Turkey's expansion. The country imports 1,000 tractors a month. Where in 1949 Turkey imported 120,000 tons of cereal, this year it will be able to export 2,000,000 tons. Last year Turkey passed Argentina to become the fourth largest wheat-producing country outside the Iron Curtain...
Brannan's action brought quick protests from abroad. Canada's National Dairy Council proposed retaliation in the form of a ban on U.S. vegetable oils used in margarine. Said the Swedish Dairy Association's export boss Bengt Dock: "This is an example of giving to Europe with one hand and taking with the other." Harry Truman sought to make political propaganda. Said he: "This is the kind of law which makes the job of the Kremlin's propaganda experts a great deal easier...
...Commerce, American industry's chief policymaking body on foreign-trade matters. Long a figure in international trade, Pierson, a Harvard-trained lawyer, is a past president of the International Air Transport Association, served on the Tripartite Commission unscrambling German debts (TIME, Aug. 18), and was president of the Export-Import Bank for ten years. He is a firm believer in "two-way trade, not oneway...
...cooperation with the U.S. Export-Import Bank and private interests in Latin American countries, I.H.C. also has an ambitious hotel-building program underway. Scheduled to open next fall, in time for the projected Inter-American Conference of Nations, is Caracas' $7,000,000, 400-room Tamanaco. Bogotá's 400-room Tequendama and Maracaibo's 150-room Del Lago, opening later in the year, will finally give those cities first-class hotels ; and the 600-room Copan, due to be completed in 1954, will help fill the urgent need for more and better hotel accommodations in booming...
...make way for Fords and Cadillacs. Government officials, demanding emancipation from the tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles and Chaco plains. With the aid of a $26 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, Bolivia hopes to finish a highway linking the mountain cities with Santa Cruz, capital of the plains, by late 1953. Brazil and Argentina are busy building railroads across the Chaco (see map) to open the area to the Atlantic. Bolivian nationalists, sponsors of a "March...