Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scramble for Business. Western Europe's current economic problem is not supply, but demand. Surpluses are piling up. Western salesmen are scrambling for export markets, and, not finding them in the U.S., are looking to Moscow-and the 800 million potential customers penned behind the Iron Curtain. "Our 1954 motto," cooed the chairman of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce in a foreign broadcast last week, "is 'Welcome' . . . to foreign traders." The traders who march on Moscow find bureaucrats with whom they must do business hard and evasive bargainers. After three months' canvassing, the spokesman for twelve...
...much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President José Figueres declared roundly: "Our country's No. 1 problem today is our coffee shortage." The local retail price had just climbed to 90? a Ib., and Figueres had tried in vain to buy some low-grade Brazilian or Colombian coffee to help out. In Guatemala...
...have found themselves undersold in foreign markets by 40% or more on such items as X-ray equipment and cement-making machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...
...Model T. If the British could have foreseen how Nordhoff would drive their own cars off the export markets, they might never have given him the job. By last week, Volkswagen estimated it was the fourth biggest automaker in the world, led only by the U.S. Big Three. Even competitors conceded that Nordhoff was probably the best automan in Europe...
...plants (four in Italy, one each in Spain and Scotland). His products, used in dozens of countries, are so handsomely designed that they have been displayed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In 1953, Olivetti machines earned Italy more dollars ($2,400,000 ) than any other mechanical export except Necchi sewing machines, and demand for his famed Lettera 22 portable typewriter still outstrips production...