Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest question had been the share of Bizonia (the merged U.S. and British zones of Germany). The first figure arrived at by OEEC was $364 million, less $90 million in export contributions to Europe, leaving a net of $274 million. General Lucius Clay, who considers Western Germany all-important to European recovery, angrily decided that the figure was too low, that Bizonia was being treated as OEEC's ugly duckling. Lawrence Wilkinson, Clay's man in Paris, flatly refused to ratify the draft agreement...
...Long Shadow. The 30-line statement barely hinted at what a colossus IAPI has become. Founded in 1946 to promote foreign trade, IAPI now handles every principal Argentine export except wool. It makes all purchases abroad for the billion-dollar five-year plan; it is the importing agency for private industries. Through its system of subsidies, it regulates domestic food prices...
...steel. Even alloy steels, relatively plentiful a few months ago, are again scarce. With current allocations calling for 6.2 million tons (out of 66 million tons annual production) the pinch will become painful about November. How much tighter would it get? Some estimates, including ECA needs and other export requirements, put the total set aside at 16 million tons. If so, production of such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators would probably have...
...Kansas City manufacturer ships his product to New York for export, the railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...
...after day sat smoking and talking around the green table were trying hard to blend their differences. Despite serious remaining obstacles, they had achieved more harmony than anyone had had reason to hope. They were talking resources and money and credits and export balances. What that talk added up to was the slowly growing life of Western Union...