Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another tunnel under the Tehachapi Mountains will take it to Los Angeles, and to needy areas from Santa Barbara to San Diego...
...also (1931) a partner in the banking house, Wall Street's Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Introduced "streamliners," low-cost dining cars; turned 4,200 acres of snowbound railroad land into moneymaking Sun Valley. Gave up shipbuilding venture in the face of rugged competition; abandoned a Russian manganese export concession fearing Soviet nationalism...
Order was restored only when President Carlos Prio Socarrás promised that local markets would be safe for handwork. Hereafter, he decreed, machine-made cigars would be for export only. The big companies, which had already installed 29 machines (displacing 768 workers) and ordered 12 more, refused to accept Prio's decision as final. "Now that we have invested our money," wailed one big producer, "we would be forced to close if this is definitive. Our export market is not large enough to take our full machine output. We need 20% of the home market besides." The battle...
...standard of living, about the machines which make such goods possible. These pages are a weekly reminder to men who can make better living available to millions overseas, for TIME Atlantic is read in its area by more top men in business and government than any edition of other export publications...
...Senator McCarran, friend of Dictator Franco, called a conference (not a Judiciary Committee meeting) in his office May 29 at which a $52 million loan to Spain was discussed. When State Department. ECA and Export-Import Bank officials got there, they had to talk it out in the presence of Spanish Ambassador José Felix de Lequierica, who had been invited by McCarran...