Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wholesale prices were even higher all along the line. Once prices were lowered, he expected labor to do its part by following his "counsel of moderation," farmers to keep production high. Government could help best, he said, by keeping taxes up, reducing the debt, holding fast to rent, export and credit controls...
When wartime export controls expire in June, the U.S. will again be bound to grant licenses for arms export to any foreign government-Monaco or Russia-that wants to buy U.S. weapons. To end such promiscuous purchasing, President Truman last week asked Congress for a major amendment to the Neutrality...
Political moves last week were obeisances in the direction of democracy, and the $500,000,000 Chinese credit in the coffers of Washington's Import and Export Bank were frozen until Secretary of State Marshall approves the Chinese government. Now that Kuomintang party pride had stooped to allowing splinter groups in what had been its private preserve, the State Department can expect polite inquiries regarding the fund. It would do well to return equally polite replies-and no money-until next December gives the coolie a chance to decide upon his own government...
...with a bent for literature. At the same time it provides an easy outlet for the student with no desire to over-specialize in any one field. The catalogue is complete with both narrow and survey courses and although the former are more competently and exhaustively handled by men export in their respective fields, such traditional crowd drawers as English 5, 7, and 23 give some return for the considerable reading required...
Socialism and security are not the only factors working against freer trade. Chemistry ("the science of substitutes") and the export of machinery make it possible for many a once backward nation to dream of self-sufficiency. This technological tendency has been encouraged by the wartime and postwar shortage of transportation. The danger is that in the last two years wartime necessity may have hardened into peacetime policy, and that not even U.S. tariff concessions will be able to unfreeze worldwide restrictions. An expert from one of the "middle powers" at Geneva had this to say, privately, last week...