Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Businessman Georges Villiers, president of France's equivalent of the National Association of Manufacturers: "Financial and economic policy of the state at all levels-taxation, credit, export policy-all must cease to discourage those who have a taste for risks...
Cause for Complaint? Though it took no position on foreign-trade policy, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, in a 240-page report, told of stiffening competition from abroad: imports of electrical machinery and equipment increased elevenfold between 1939 and 1952, while exports only quintupled. In the first six months of this year imports increased by 50%, v. an export gain of only 9%. But the dollar figures showed that the industry has small cause for complaint: U.S. exports in 1952 totaled $616 million, v. imports of $27 million. And imports are still only a tiny fraction of domestic output (about...
...flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling coffin, even the cries of the children should pass undetected. Just to make sure, however, Bedrich planned to keep the children drugged during...
...Tamanaco cost $8,500,000-half from the Venezuelan government, a quarter from local private capital and a quarter from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. For the U.S. salesmen who swarm to the booming capital, it offers comfortable rooms at $8 a day; for luxury-seeking tourists it has suites...
...Florence's outskirts, the oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January of 350 workers, leaving 1,750. Last month Pignone's stockholders decided to halt operations altogether, and the dreaded closing notice was posted...