Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marlin sails for home at 5 next morning, an hour when sleepy customs officials find it easy to look the other way. Without benefit of export licenses, food has found its way into the wicker baskets of the returning women, and their demijohns hold cooking oil instead of wine. Back in Martinique, easygoing inspectors hurriedly chalk their O.K.s on the baskets. In a few minutes the traffickers have sold their smuggled goods...
...which is on record as favoring a good deal of competition among U.S. flag lines on the transocean airlanes, must approve the deal. So must President Truman. The merger is likely to be fought, not only by T.W.A., but by the American Export (steamship) Lines, Inc. American Export started American Overseas in 1937 to buck Pan Am, which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned...
...players, Emil Drvaric. place-kicking export, and Nick Rodis, guard, will play in the Blue-Gray game at Birmingham, Alabama. The conches of the North at this game are "ox" Da Grossa, of Temple, Ray Morrison, also of Temple, and Ray Eliot of Illinois. Da Grossa is head coach, and will probably...
...Meat exports were declining alarmingly. Because the government had dillydallied with new export rules, trading in hides and skins had all but stopped. Miranda had priced linseed oil right out of the export market. To save its vanishing dollar exchange, the government was even making it hard for immigrants to send money home to Europe (contrary to the immigration treaties with Italy and Spain...
...Economy. Stand-by power to clamp on price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...