Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West last week took another important step toward the rebuilding of Western Germany, on which depends the rebuilding of all Western Europe. The military governors of the U.S., British and French occupation zones announced that all of the import & export trade of those areas would henceforth be regulated by one centralized agency. That regulation meant the almost complete economic merger of U.S.-British Bizonia with the hitherto separate French zone. It was a firm answer to Russia, who, by putting on the screws in Berlin, is trying to make the West abandon Western German recovery...
...preview of what the Communists are trying to do in Southeast Asia is visible in French Indo-China, where Viet Nam's Communist President Ho Chi-minh's forces have been fighting the French for the past three years. In 1937 Indo-Chinese exports amounted to $101 million; last year they were $56 million, in inflated dollars. Actual export tonnage in fiscal 1948 was 400,000 as against 4,000,000 tons before the war-a 90% drop...
...plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
Four Aces. The 9,644-ton, 17-knot Excalibur, first of the American Export Lines' postwar "4 Aces," sailed from New York harbor on its maiden run to the Mediterranean, reopening the line's first-class travel after eight years. Excalibur has a swimming pool and air-conditioned cabins and carries 124 passengers. Her three sisterships, Exochorda, Exeter and Excambion (replacing vessels lost during the war) will go into service in the next two months...
...centuries ago, Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England has one of the biggest, busiest automobile plants in Europe-34 acres, 15,000 men under one roof. Furthermore, as of the time I was there the car and commercial vehicle sections of the British motor industry had already exceeded their export goals...