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...Angelis built a sprawling refinery in Bayonne and leased 139 oil storage tanks, many as tall as five-story buildings. Operating in a slippery, fiercely competitive industry, he outdid other companies by buying the most modern equipment, paying the highest wages and putting in the lowest bids for Government export contracts. By 1962, he accounted for three-quarters of the nation's exports of soybean and cottonseed oils, shipping 361 million lbs. All this required considerable capital-and that is how the swindle began...
Though many U.S. ad campaigns are sharply revised and toned down for export, the tiger was crated and shipped with only minor changes, such as substituting "motor" for the untranslatable "tank" in the wording of French and Italian slogans. In just the month since it was introduced with unprecedented hoopla as Esso's first all-Europe promotional campaign, the drive has spread to 14 countries, leaving a trail of 1,000,000 tiger tails and such gimmickry as tiger T-shirts, balloons, pencils, coloring books, key rings, windshield decals and jigsaw puzzles...
Thus, the danger was cited-but the remedy remained a "Meeting of Consultation." OAS meetings have never in the past been known for swift or decisive action. In more than six years of blatant Castro subversion-by-export, the OAS has had scores of meetings' managed at most to suspend trade with Cuba except for food and medicine, and bar diplomatic relations with Havana (Mexico has ignored the latter...
...supposedly backing reactionary regimes that lacked popular support and could not win. And yet in both cases, when outside Red help was shut off, the rebellions collapsed. Because the West has lately learned to live with Communist regimes that have been forced to cut back their export of revolution, it is sometimes forgotten that Communism still remains an international aggressive movement, that "infiltration" and "subversion" remain realities, not words to frighten children. No struggle in which Communism is involved is ever truly a civil...
...made tobacco products. Communist governments value their tobacco trusts as both a prime source of income and a useful sponge to soak up cash that the restless people cannot otherwise spend because of the shortages of consumer goods. Red Bulgaria counts upon its golden leaf for 10% of its export income...