Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
Food Minister John Strachey's allocation last week of 50,000 tons of barley had started up Scotch distilleries (dormant since last summer), averted a contemplated slash in the export of Scotch whiskey, which nets Britain many (in 1945-$16,000,000) of her eagerly sought U.S. dollars...
Heckled Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: "With regard to the dollar export . . . is it not the case that the price of a bottle of whiskey exported to America today in dollars is five shillings [$1] . . . and that there it is about five times that much...
...heels of such longtime export leaders as wheat, flour and newsprint, were some healthy newcomers. Locomotives, cars and parts exported totaled $53.3 million v. $358,000 in 1939; synthetic rubber, $7.9 million v. $200,000 in 1939; electrical apparatus (including radios), $20.9 million v. $3.2 million; ships, $18.8 million...
Industrial wheels stopped turning at Midnight in 44 of 64 counties in England and Wales, crippling Britain's vital export campaign in what newspapers described as an "industrial Dunkerque...