Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative to these subsidies is for the U.S. to cut exports-and thereby reduce other people's standard of life-or to cut tariffs, encourage imports and American tourist expenditure overseas, and balance the nation's exports with imports. Reed left his audience in no doubt as to which course he would choose: "Has it become easier for us Americans to give away our natural resources, our manufactures, our services, our capital, our taxes and our purchasing power than to think? Wouldn't we help other nations raise their standard of living ... far more by really trading...
...record grain crop (50% over the 1934-38 average) is in. During 1949 and 1950, to the acute embarrassment of ECA Boss for Turkey Russell Dorr, who has always contended that Turkey should be a wheat-exporting nation, the country had to import the grain. This year, Dorr happily predicts, it will export 200,000 tons. In the south, cotton pickers are gathering another record crop (300% over...
...Denmark's first TV programs (three hours a week). There were warnings that Denmark's government budget could not stand the cost-$70,000 a year-but eager viewers pointed out that Danish production of TV accessories might earn as much as $5,000,000 from overseas export. Added income: a $7-a-year license fee from each set owner...
...this report, wrote Wallace to Truman, "Mr. Vincent took no part . . . The strongest influence on me in preparing this final report . . . was my recollection of the analyses offered by our then Ambassador to China, Clarence E. Gauss, who later occupied one of the Republican places on the Export-Import Bank Board...
...hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when the pie was cut, to cause a "diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests...