Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arranged the firing of overscrupulous Cabinet ministers who interfered with her brothers' shady export-import transactions...
...They want assurances that the U.S. will grant more loans and technical aid. quit complaining about high coffee prices, promise to hold down tariffs, give them some sort of parity price program for their raw materials. Some U.S gesture−an announcement, for instance, that the U.S. Export-Import Bank would reconsider the decision against making further Latin American development loans−may be necessary in this atmosphere if Dulles is to win support for his anti-Communist program...
...anti-Socialist propaganda or a moneymaking racket, or both. Sneered the Daily Mirror: "America occasionally tells her friends what to do. Tomorrow an American arrives in Britain to tell us what to think and what to believe. God's Own Country has always run a brisk export line in evangelists. They come in all shapes and sizes . . . We've had kids like seven-year-old Renee Martz, who tooted a trumpet and sang in Chinese. We've had 'Little David,' the teen-age 'miracle healer.' Now we're getting Mr. Billy Graham...
...stability. While Premier Yoshida has steadied the political situation in that nation, Japan is now fighting a subsistence battle with its shaky economy. The slackening of United States purchases since the Korean war has left a large trade deficit. Food imports necessary to feed the population far exceed the export market for Japan's industrial output. For this reason, although quite strongly opposed to Russia, a hungry Japan might look more favorably toward Communist promises...
...special assistant to Ambassador George Messersmith. Among his tasks: blacklisting firms dealing with Axis countries. In 1945 he joined B.B.A. & S. in Houston and established the firm's Mexican affiliate, which now employs 16 bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies. Business has also taken Holland on fre quent trips to Central and South America. He lives with his wife Betty and three children in a three-bedroom house, plays a "passable" guitar and shuns the oil-rich Houston social life...