Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three times as much meat as the maximum ration today. Laborites writhed as he ticked off some of the sources from which Britain's meat now comes: "Cargoes of goats arriving at Hull . . . reindeer meat from Lapland . . ." The Tory benches roared when he exposed "a considerable [government] export scheme of English meat to the U.S. ... Canada and-the Argentine!" Cried Crookshank: "In a world under Socialist administration, the U.S. sends coal to Newcastle and Britain sends meat to the Argentine...
Britain's 1950 coal output set a postwar record of 216,301,100 tonsbut it still fell 1,700,000 tons short of the nation's needs because of the soaring demand for power for the booming export drive and rearmament. British miners, dissatisfied with pay and conditions in the nationalized coal industry, were not giving their best. Thousands of them, tired of the dirty, dangerous work, quit to join the expanding armed forces or to take better-paying jobs in other industries. In 1950, the mining force fell from 708,900 to 688,600; absenteeism...
...maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy; 5) The room-mate export or phony reference ploy...
...West, Acheson thought, lay the hope of stopping Russian Communism. In his previous capacities at State he had done yeoman service in helping to prepare and win congressional approval of Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank and the Truman Doctrine. In a speech in the spring of 1947 he had outlined the ideas which George Marshall had taken up a month later, and which became the Marshall Plan. During the months immediately following Acheson's induction as Secretary, the West even held the momentary initiative. Acheson presided over the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty...
...State Department asked the weekly Iron Age to cancel its subscriptions to Eastern European countries (except Yugoslavia). Said the State Department: the Russians have long banned export of such technical journals to the West...