Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agricultural machinery. But many a European industrialist hoped that the ban on arms production would soon be withdrawn. "The sooner Krupp pitches in to do its share in the rearming, the better," said one British official. "I certainly don't like to see them capturing all the civilian export markets while the rest of us struggle to produce arms for the common defense...
...last week made two patriotic decisions; 1) they voted overwhelmingly to support "the greatest possible measure of rearmament," even if that means curtailing Britain's social services; 2) they agreed, more reluctantly, to restrain their demands for wage increases, so as not to price British goods out of export markets. Both decisions by the Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.) were victories for the moderate (Attlee) wing of the Labor Party, and defeats for Communists and the followers of Aneurin Bevan, who blame defense spending-as well as the U.S.-for most of Britain's troubles...
...example, has made mistakes ("They tried to expand too fast and lived beyond their means"). His advice for Australia, and also for Britain: "They can reduce the demand on their resources or they can increase their output . . . produce more or use less at home . . . find more things to export so they can find the money with which to import...
...mainly because she cannot produce nearly enough to pay for what she needs from abroad, and lacks the investment capital to increase production. Vargas' Finance Minister Horacio Lafer has tried to balance the books by slashing imports in half-but that has not been enough. With all existing export industries except coffee too high priced to compete in the world market, the nationalists have balked at developing likely new exports with the aid of foreign capital. Items...
...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...