Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplying the Communists with credit to buy capital goods, the West would be putting another nail in the coffin of freedom. It would 1) permit a Communist industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items...
...years since the death of able, hard-driving President Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 25, 1957), amiable, luxury-loving Carlos Garcia and his friends have done much to diminish the luster of the Philippines as Asia's democratic showcase. A costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos (out of a labor...
...largely to lever the U.S. into greater generosity. Last October the government announced it was trading 20,000 bags of cocoa for 60,000 tons of Soviet crude. But the Russian oil turned out to be the same type of paraffin-heavy crude that Brazil is already forced to export for lack of refining capacity...
...anyone imagines that the export of The Sorceress, One Summer of Happiness, and Ingrid Bergman has emptied the Scandinavian fleshpots, he has only to go to the Brattle and taste Smiles of a Summer Night...
...EXPORT SLUMP will continue, warns Commerce Department. Though exports edged up slightly in third quarter, "the rise is not sufficient to indicate that the low has been passed, and the upswing has started...