Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reception in Quito. Then he had a friendly chat with Harry Truman, came away impressed by the President's "grasp of modern and ancient Ecuadorian history." Finally last week, as his North American honeymoon ended, Trujillo announced that he had wangled two $4 million loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, to complete modernization of the water systems of Ecuador's capital and chief port...
According to another version, the nudes appeared on a float labeled "For Export Only"-a reference to the fact that Britain's consumer-goods factories produce chiefly for export. A guest, inflamed by politics or alcohol, attacked the float. The crowd surged in. The float was upset. The girls were heaped on the floor. The fights began...
...international trade that a nation must sell goods in order to be able to buy them. If American markets are closed to foreign countries, they will have no recourse but to withdraw into economic isolation, adopt a system of strict controls, and wage a cutthroat fight to control certain export markets. The frictions arising from this condition might well provide the spark for another...
...Byrnes said in his recent Cleveland speech, prosperity, like freedom, must be shared, not on the basis of handouts, but of fair and honest exchange of the products of the labors of free men and women. Prosperity can be the United States' chief export...
...second star of the Metropolitan's show was Hiroshige, who was born 37 years after Hokusai. His work ended the golden age of Japanese prints and started a new era in Western art. His prints, frequently used in wrapping tea for export to Europe, exerted an influence on Manet, Whistler, Degas, and Van Gogh...