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...Continental sold wheat at precisely the same terms as those announced three days later by the White House. No one questioned why Continental would commit itself to selling 150 million bu. to Russia without some assurance that the Agriculture Department would protect its price by raising the export subsidy-as it later did. Because of the amount of money involved, Continental apparently risked heavy losses without such assurance...
...congressional opposition to expand trade with the Soviets, said last week, "I do not see how any Senator or Congressman could vote for new trade concessions for the Soviet Union at a time when the Russians are trading in human lives. The ransoming of Soviet Jews is one Soviet export all decent men must absolutely refuse to accept." The Administration is also troubled. Although doing business with unpalatable regimes is no novelty in the U.S., continued negotiations for trade with Russia in an election year might well cost Nixon votes among America's 6,000,000 Jews...
...population of 500, has been ruled more or less benevolently like a feudal fiefdom for the past 145 years by descendants of a Scottish sea captain named John Clunies-Ross. He settled in the coconut-growing islands in 1827, imported Malay workers from Java to harvest the copra for export, and in 1886 his grandson obtained a grant in perpetuity to the islands from Queen Victoria...
...Even so, Boeing's salesmen used every method they could think of, including visits to Chinese offices in Hong Kong and advances through intermediaries, before getting the nod. Finally Miller tried the direct approach and spent 21? to mail a letter to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corp. in Peking. Back came an invitation for a Boeing contingent to attend the Canton trade fair in April and then go to Peking...
Ponto spent his early childhood in Ecuador and Chile, where his German father ran an export-import business. After the war he studied at Göttingen, Hamburg, Zurich, Cambridge and the University of Washington, where he did half a year of graduate work in international law. He joined Dresdner Bank in 1950 "out of curiosity about figures," and by 1969 made it to chief executive...