Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural market for many of West Berlin's skilled industries is densely populated Western Germany. But to ship their products west through 110 miles of Red territory, Berlin businessmen must get clearance from Russian trade inspectors. For weeks, the Russians have been holding up Berlin's westbound exports on the pretext that they must be accompanied by "certificates of origin" showing the sources of all raw materials used in their manufacture. Last week, with 12,000 tons ($17 million worth) of export goods piled up in West Berlin, the West met this new threat to Berlin...
...truce talks (TIME, July 2), received a delegation of British Quakers. Would Russia promise, the Quakers asked Malik, not to fire up revolutions in the West, provided the West stayed away from the Iron Curtain? Malik replied, by quoting his boss Stalin in a 1936 interview: "To attempt to export revolution is nonsense. Without the desire within a country, there will be no revolution...
...over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does its bit to pull British North Borneo out of the soup economically...
...Chief export from the Keith family last year was Georgie himself, who was packed off to school in Canada. Musing on the value of his jungle training, Mrs. Keith concludes that he had learned one great and humble lesson: "All men are human." That, she implies, and not "Poppa knows best," is the only plank on the wave of the future that white men can ride in the Far East without getting swamped...
...import-export business in Osaka...