Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parity between the price that Latin American nations get in the U.S. for their raw materials and the price they pay for our manufactures. "Chile, Peru, Mexico and Bolivia have seen the export prices of their metals drop from 40% to 50% during the last several years," said Grace, while the average price of U.S. exports to Latin America has risen 11%. ¶ "A positive attitude toward Latin America based upon permanent friendship and not upon 'crash' programs when we get into trouble abroad...
Another light first brightened by the Europeans is the double version-one for export, one for domestic consumption. The code is still strong enough so that U.S. viewers of Cry Tough will see Linda Cristal with a blouse on instead of bare to the waist when she does her love scene with John Saxon. But Hollywood, faced with the stinging competition of TV and foreign films, is in the mood to shed any garments that seem to get in the way at the box office...
...whose name I could not read played the part of a collossal boor with collossal boorishness; and there were many lovelies who displayed their carefully concealed charms (a seeming paradox) with the poise and savior seduire which can come only from several year's experience in French export films...
Soon after his graduation, he worked with an export-import company, but left that to accept a position in England with a British-Russian trading corporation. His "acquired practical knowledge" of international economics and world trade, he confesses modestly, helped him become president of the second largest corporation in Russia, where he was in charge of all exportation and importation of timber...
...answer is international agreements to control production and exports. Though the U.S. still considers "cartel" a dirty word, it has been forced to change its ideas about cartel-like marketing agreements simply because drops in raw material prices can easily undo all the good of U.S. foreign aid programs. The U.S. is a member of the International Sugar Council, which has tried to stabilize sugar prices since 1954 by setting up export quotas for 25 nations. It has reluctantly led the way in trying to set up an international stabilization plan for coffee to save the world market from...