Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word. Shorn of its doublespeak, the word was cynically frank. Henceforth, said the Leader, the Soviet Union will openly and officially export revolution to capitalist countries. Since 1936, when Stalin declared that the "export of revolution is nonsense,"* the U.S.S.R. and its underlings abroad have publicly maintained the fiction that foreign Communist parties are independent, national organizations, unconnected, except by ideology, with the fountainhead in Moscow. Stalin's speech made little attempt to continue the fiction...
...Russia, insisted Malenkov in a five-hour speech, it is friendly as can be: "Peaceful co-existence of capitalism and Communism is perfectly feasible. Export of revolution is rubbish." Any capitalist state that wanted it, cooed Malenkov, could have "lasting peace" with Russia...
Built by the Government during the war, the LaGuardia carried troops and war brides for four years, then went completely out of service. In 1949, the Maritime Administration spent $4,700,000 converting her to a commercial passenger liner and chartered her to American Export Lines. But American Export found the LaGuardia too expensive to operate. With a total capacity of only 609 passengers, she lost money even when 97% full. Back she promptly went to the Maritime Administration, which then turned her over to the Navy for carrying dependents in the Pacific (under the American President Lines) and later...
...interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world...
...Lima, Peru, changed trades. He decided that he could make more money selling guano fertilizer (bird droppings) than from ship supplies He was right. By the time he died in 1904. his W. R. Grace & Co. was a multimillion-dollar empire whose ship lines, sales agencies, railroads and import-export business touched almost every town and hamlet along South America's west coast...