Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion included the $3,750,000,000 already spoken for by the British, which Congress may or may not approve and which is "a special case," not to be considered "a precedent for a loan to any other country." Other countries will apply to the Export-Import Bank, which, if Congress accepts Vinson's program, will have some $3 billion to dish...
...played hookey. In the last quarter of 1945, 10% of them were persistent absentees. That was equivalent to a loss of 20 million tons of coal a year; and in a world starving for coal 20 million tons would go a long way towards achieving the huge expansion of export trade (goal: 150% of prewar figures) which was needed to restore Britain's standard of living...
...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...
...Perry in reverse, General Douglas MacArthur last week opened the door for the resumption of foreign trade with Japan. But it would not be like the old days, when Japan did the world's fourth-largest export business (3,533 million yen, about $1 billion, in 1936), used its credits to build up vast stockpiles of war materials...
Under this SCAPitalism, U.S. markets are in no danger of being flooded with cheap Japanese toys, Christmas-tree lights, pottery, etc. Japan's initial exports will be largely from stocks accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic...