Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia back in 1939, Hans Lenk's world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...
Prime Minister Nehru and other Indian global spokesmen show a tolerance of Communism which seems to be for export only. At home, government pressure on Communists has helped to roll back their influence in recent months. Last week India's Communist party got another blow: the national Parliament (with only one dissenting vote) approved the extension of a law permitting the government to jail Communists (and black marketeers) without trial. The law, however, requires the police to consult with a board of retired judges on such arrests...
Frank Mordecai, 29, of Raleigh, N.C., and Richard Pfeiffer, 25, of Los Angeles, both city boys, both ex-G.I.s, met in 1948 in Phoenix, Ariz., where they were students at the American Institute of Foreign Trade. Most of the other students planned to go into export-import trade, but Frank and Dick thought they might do better by producing some commodity. On a trip to Central America, they studied the possibilities of lumber in Honduras and cattle in El Salvador, finally decided on cotton in Nicaragua...
...governments must face criticism. Some of them are answering their critics with severe limitations, and are also trying to export these practices as well. Those countries which still maintain this basic freedom should fight every attempt to throttle the unrestricted press...
...graduate of Ursinus College (1912), got his start in business as a Philadelphia construction man, took on "any job that came along"-including repairing Delaware River bulkheads between tides. An early aviator (1912), he flew for the Navy in World War I. At 26 he joined General Motors' export division as a trainee, was made head of the division in a year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric welding system...