Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help set things right. Martin helped draft the plan which completely reorganized the exchange in 1938, and became, at 31, the exchange's first paid president. In 1941 he entered the Army as a private, rose to colonel. After the war, President Truman appointed him to run the Export-Import Bank, from which he moved to the Treasury two years ago. Nobody thought that the appointment of Martin would permanently settle the dispute over the national fiscal policy. But FRB members felt that Martin could be counted on to back their fight for a sounder money policy...
...Establishment of a $100 million authority in the Export-Import Bank to underwrite, for a fee, the transfer risks on new foreign securities. This would insure U.S. investors against the rise & fall of currency values...
...chief producers in the U.S., Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. and Freeport Sulphur Co., have cut their domestic deliveries 15% to 20%. The National Production Authority pared exports down to two-thirds of last year's 1,200,000 tons. As a result, Britain, which buys 40% of the total U.S. export, faces big cuts in her chemical industry, has already cut back rayon production 20% and may soon be forced to reduce it another...
Chiang Kai-Shek's "Free China" (Formosa) continuously gets applause from "The Freeman." In "Can Chiang Trust America?" by Alfred Kohlberg, the exiled dictator is pictured as "simple and direct. . . a deeply religious Christian." Mr. Kohlberg, Treasurer of The Freeman, made his fortune in export trade with Nationalist China and was registered as a representative for the Kuomintang government. Grand Strategy articles in the magazine call for an active war against Communist China through arming Chiang. Thus, while America keeps her troops at home, we can "free Eurasia without expending a single American soldier in battle." Europe is written...
...these materials is wolfram, an ore containing tungsten which is necessary for hardening steel. During the last war, Spain did a profitable business in wolfram, selling it to both sides at the highest price the traffic would bear. But during the past fifteen months, exports of wolfram from Spain have been very low; the United States has imported only five tons. The Spanish government raised the price of the ore from $2,300 a ton to $4,700 a ton last winter, and has now set a new export minimum of $4,900 a ton. This price is too steep...