Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greatly boosted production of cacao (the leading cash export), coffee...
...their hardships, Red China's scientists are producing results. From behind the Bamboo Curtain come rumors that significant supplies of uranium are being developed in Sinkiang province for export to the U.S.S.R. For a time, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. who left Britain for Moscow five years ago (TIME. March 14). was in command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects...
...intensive work, and in the second place, our constitution forbids any President to run again." Odria's decision sets up a knotty political problem for him and for Peru. The country has moved forward economically under honest, efficient Dictator Odria. By boldly unpegging the currency, cutting away useless export-import controls, and welcoming foreign investment capital, he stimulated production and trade. But with economic liberty went tight political control. In the absence of functioning political parties and a free press, the conditions for a democratic or even a democratic-looking presidential election do not exist in Peru. And they...
...Salk vaccine and its effectiveness to 75 nations through U.S. Ambassadors, and the World Health Organization planned to duplicate this effort. The U.S. Department of Commerce put an immediate embargo on future shipments of the vaccine, and experts thought that the U.S. would have little to spare for export before 1957. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. "An American gift...
With new U.S. machinery the Japanese textile industry has cut costs 20% below prewar levels, and such processes as Cluett, Peabody's "Sanforizing" have opened up new export markets from Australia to Canada-to the consternation of U.S. textilemen. Japan's petroleum industry, which in 1949 had to import 92% of its finished petroleum products, last year was able to produce 90% of the products at home, due largely to some $71 million invested by Caltex, Standard-Vacuum, Union Oil and Tide Water. By agreements signed with Armco International Corp., Japanese steelmen have been able to cut costs...