Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheap credit. Now, continued Butler, Britain's $13 billion rearmament program, begun so bravely in early 1951 by the Socialists (with full Tory support), will assume under the Tories "a new pattern." Defense production would be cut somewhat to allow more manufacture of dollar-earning export items...
...rearmament, Churchill spoke words that were almost a steal from the lines spouted for months by Nye Bevan: "The defense programs must be kept within the limits of our economic strength." Machinery, automobiles, armaments and other metal-using industries would have to be given a higher priority for export goods, and defense production would have to suffer. Well, how much...
...insufficient honor." The law helped the Nazis take over Germany's banking system. A month ago, Schacht, now a persimmon-faced 75, survivor of the Nürnberg war criminal trials and of denazification courts, asked the Hamburg Central State Bank for a license to establish an import-export bank under the name Hjalmar Schacht & Co. (capital: 1,000,000 Deutsche marks). Last week the decision was in. The Hamburg senate had refused Schacht his license, under the old 1934 law. Grounds: "insufficient honor...
...natives was to teach them American technical skills at the same time. From the Liberian government LeTourneau leased 500,000 acres of jungle for 80 years at 6? an acre, laid plans to cultivate the land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits into the development. With such material aid, LeTourneau, who is flying ahead "to be there when the boat rams that beach," hopes to accomplish a material and spiritual Point Four. Says he: "Hungry natives will listen to us about...
...them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping $135 million (31 billion Finnmark) trade surplus...