Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught unprepared, Shinwell sputtered that Blackburn was "inaccurate ... for several months now we have placed an embargo on the export of strategic raw materials to China." But Blackburn was not wrong. He harried Shinwell with data from the government's own Board of Trade. Example: British Malaya had sold 120,000 tons of rubber to Communist China and 40,400 tons to Russia in the first nine months of the Korean war. Tory M.P.s joined the clamor by asking if the U.S. was pressing Britain for a "tightening-up" of the trade with the enemy...
...hobbies take up much of Sorokin's spare time: music and gardening. "This is a bad year for azaleas," he laments. Then brightening, he adds, "At least gardening is more harmless than going as an export to Washington...
...would have dropped the whole export project rather than hoodwink readers in any such fashion, but we passed the complaint along to more than 400 business and political leaders in this hemisphere. Ninety percent of them came back with firm support for our decision...
...Russia "aspire to be universal; and under either of them, if absolutely dominant, mankind might become safe, law-abiding, sporting, and uniform." And under either, the individual soul attempting to follow its "native bent" might find itself in a spiritual concentration camp. Since he dreads the export of America's "commercial" culture as much as any French intellectual who winces at the sight of a Coke, Santayana feels that perhaps the "barbarians" of the East might organize the future better than the "decadent" technicians of the West. "Conviction has deserted the civilized mind; and a good conscience exists only...
...million for agriculture, including $29 million for irrigation and $25 million to expand citrus crops, the country's most important export...