Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last July to buy automobiles, spare parts, shoemaking machines, airplane tires and numerous other articles difficult to acquire in Bulgaria. Not having any dollars for these purposes, but having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited to the Control Council, but simply a purchasing mission with passports visaed by the Soviet occupation authorities...
...weeks ago there was a chance that Attlee might have to yield the leadership to a bigger Laborite. He and his Government had lost prestige at home and abroad. But now Attlee is over the worst of his qualms. He is banking on the Cripps production and export program, Dalton's emergency dollar measures, and the coming ministerial changes to restore British and world confidence...
...Macari and other forward-looking henequeneros thought they could weather it. There are new uses for Yucatán fibers in the U.S. to make up for the decreasing use of binder twine. With a little help from the industrial-minded Mexican Government, in subsidies and export-tax concessions, Yucatán's factories might get a share of such business. The serried rows of agave would still stretch green across the Yucatán flatland...
Covre finally lost his patience. When he stormed back to his shop, he found more canceled orders. Said Covre last week: "I'll just have to kick anyone who wants a table for export in the future. They say the country is short of dollars. Well, I could contribute by selling to America if they left me moderately alone, but I can't contribute to dollar sales any more. I'd end up in the madhouse if I tried...
Devil No. 2. Grain brokers themselves thought that they knew who the devil was: the Federal Government. As long as the Government kept on buying for export, they thought that they could count on rising.prices, even though corn is now 30% higher than in 1920's boom. Until recently, the U.S. has not been exporting any more food than it did after World War I. But in July and August, grain exports increased to an alltime peak. The traders also put the blame on the blundering way the Government bought. Instead of buying only in dull markets, it hopped...