Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese and German racism was almost impossible to export. Communist ideology is easy to export; in fact, it makes more sense in a lot of other countries than it does in Russia. Because of that, the struggle with Russia will be more in the economic, political and ideological fields than was the struggle with the Axis...
...dollar-financed purchases in Latin America, mostly from Argentina, do not satisfy them. They want U.S. dollars to build up home industry, raise cellar-low living standards. The most the U.S. was prepared to offer on the eve of the conference was an increase of $500 million in Export-Import Bank lending authority, and an easing of the bank's rules so that more dollars could flow southward. There might be World Bank help, too. The U.S. intended to tell Latinos that their best bet was U.S. private investment, that to get it, Latin American governments would have...
...work at Bogota, there will be top-flight statesmen on the job. Crisis-harried George Marshall will head the U.S. delegation, with Cabinet-rank support from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
Hidden away in the 62 closely printed pages were hints that the machine, which Britain has been running at top speed since war's end, was already missing on a few cylinders. Last year Cripps set the export target for the end of 1948 at 160% of prewar level. Last week, it was cut to 150%. There was simply no likelihood that the higher one could be reached...
...welcome mat for U.S. businessmen was put out by Bizonia last week. The Joint Export-Import Agency, which directs foreign trade for the U.S.-British occupation economy, upped the period foreign businessmen are allowed to stay from 15 to 30 days during any six-month period. It also promised them comfortable hotels, good food, taxis, and help in bartering with the Germans. The businessmen can send in food and raw materials in return for finished or semi-manufactured goods...