Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because the U.S. did not recognize the blockade, Isbrandtsen demanded, in full-page ads in New York newspapers, that the State Department uphold freedom of the seas and give him protection by U.S. warships. Earlier, Isbrandtsen ships had been seized in the East Indies by the Dutch (over export license technicalities) and in the Mediterranean by the Egyptians (on suspicion of carrying war goods to Israel). The Dutch have since made a settlement for damages; the U.S. State Department is negotiating for Isbrandfceen with the Egyptians...
Opposition Leader Winston Churchill gave his support. Churchill criticized the government's tardiness in sending troops to Korea and its negligence in allowing Russia to buy British machine tools. Later, under further pressure from Churchill, the government announced a ban on export to Iron Curtain countries of any machine tools the West may need for defense. Churchill also attacked Attlee for not making a clear statement of policy on the rearming of Germany. To close the "hideous gap" between Russian and Western military forces, Churchill demanded the creation of a European defense army, to include ten German...
...Government did not take over American Export Lines' 26,000-ton Constitution, which was launched in Quincy, Mass, last week. Unlike the United States, the 1,000-passenger Constitution was designed primarily as a commercial vessel, although she has many defense features. With her sister ship, the Independence, the $25 million Constitution will enter service between New York and the Mediterranean early next year...
...Vice President H. B. Dean on a tour of South America to drum up local capital to build or buy hotels. The field looked so ripe that Pan Am put up $1 million to start a new subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels Corp., arranged a $25 million credit with the Export-Import Bank, and decided to girdle the globe with hotels...
...Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer ordered export controls restored on scarce steel products, Harrison conferred with 21 steel company presidents called in to discuss formation of an industry advisory committee which would help him set up voluntary allocations for steel...