Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, there was talk that Russia might enter the world export market and try to compete with the U.S. and Canada...
...increased more than 100%. The greatest jump was in labor, the biggest cost factor. (It takes a lot of picking and sorting to make a pound, since only the three end leaves on every branch-the Pekoe leaves-are picked.) On top of that, India slapped on an export tax of 7¾? a lb., Ceylon, 12?. When the free market was restored in tea last January, the world found that demand was 25% greater than supply...
...ease the pressure on prices, the Department of Agriculture canceled a July-August allocation of 6,740,000 bu. of corn for export and decided to substitute wheat, barley and grain sorghums. For all the abundant expectations, the demand for wheat was already being heightened by harvest trouble. Rains had already put the harvest behind schedule. And though there were more combines at work than ever before, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas were yelling for still more...
...Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
...compete better with U.S. cars abroad. For example the Nuffield organization (Morris Motors, Ltd.), now producing 24 models, will reduce to twelve. But carmakers will probably need two years to retool for the new models. The new tax will help U.S. automakers also. Eventually, when they are able to export freely again to Britain, they will be in a much-better position to compete for the British home market...