Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coal Corp., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, asked the Price Commission for a 6.7% price increase to cover fresh wage costs. The case will be decided this week. Commission members are well aware that coal operators unhappy with domestic prices can further increase their fast-rising export shipments, which are not subject to price controls. Coal users already protest that the companies are exporting too much, and that the result could be a dangerous winter shortage of fuel and electric power. Nevertheless, like Horatio at the bridge, Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson Jr. has vowed that employers...
...Eastern manufacturers were the leading protectionists, while free trade was advocated by the South, the farm bloc and labor, all of which correctly saw increased trade as a stimulant to prosperity. Now that alignment has been fragmented. Farmers, who devote a quarter of their acreage to growing crops for export, are still reliably for free trade. But the South, to safeguard its textile mills, has turned protectionist. Big business, which has built up extensive operations overseas, is mostly for free trade, but with some backsliding. Most important, the hard-lobbying labor movement has turned vehemently against free trade...
...report, originally presented by committee to President Pusey in spring 1971, consists of seven points. The points require an assurance of valid title for the object and an assurance that it was not illegally exported (in violation of a country's export laws after July 1, 1971). All information concerning previous ownership (object's the provenance) will be made public...
...curator finds it necessary, a special panel will be set up to determine an object's rightful ownership. Harvard will make efforts to return any object to a foreign country that is found to be a part of a national patrimony or otherwise an illegal export...
Freeze Peril. Deprived of cargo from the liners' holds, railroads, truckers and import-export dealers have lost millions of dollars. Shipowners, who were already suffering from a worldwide decline in orders (TIME, Aug. 9), found themselves idler than ever. New York Shipping Broker Theofilos Vatis estimates that North Atlantic freight rates for grain have fallen 20% in the past few weeks...