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...office accounting machines and computers are selling well in most of the world, particularly in Japan. A worldwide building boom is pushing up sales of earth-moving equipment; Caterpillar Tractor's first-quarter exports are up 17%. Because of increased mining activity, mainly in Canada, South America and Africa, export sales of the Denver Equipment Co., one of the leading U.S. makers of mining equipment, rose 45% in the first quarter above their year-ago level. The recent sale of 29 Boeing 727 medium-range jetliners to foreign airlines has reversed a three-year decline in U.S. aircraft exports...
...Government has helped U.S. businessmen win more sales abroad by setting up exhibition centers for U.S. products, ordering its commercial attaches to help U.S. firms find customers, and offering export insurance that takes much of the risk out of doing business with foreign customers. The expansion of U.S. banks abroad has also aided American companies overseas. Widespread inflation-which raises the price of foreign goods and makes U.S. products relatively less expensive-is helping sell more U.S. goods abroad. Because of Europe's inflation and labor shortage, many U.S. companies with European subsidiaries are hiking their exports of goods...
...Italy's important export market of Argentina, where Olivetti has long built typewriters and calculators, an attempt to ship in other machines was almost completely cut off last year by Argentine import restrictions. In neighboring Brazil, inflation far worse than Italy's ate up Olivetti's profits. Heavily dependent on South American sales, damaged by the Italian spiral and drained by its effort in the U.S., Olivetti had insufficient income to cover the costs of its vastly expanded plants, which turn out products noted for their quality and design...
...Communist China is busily shipping Peking ducks to Havana, and in return is importing giant Cuban-bred bullfrogs for the few Chinese gourmets who can still afford them. Red China's trade may become even more exotic. A French medical journal reported last week that Red China will export, in addition to hair for wigs and skins for sausages, " 'parts of human anatomy,' vulgarly known as 'stiffs.' " The journal did not comment on the reasons for an oversupply of corpses in Red China...
...hungry Australia spends more than $250 million a year to import petroleum, an outlay that hardly pleases its export-minded government. Alarmed by this drain, Australia began subsidizing oil exploration six years ago, has since spent more than $45 million sending drill and rig out across its vast uncharted continent, often to the amazement of its aborigines and the terror of its kangaroos. More than 100 companies and syndicates now hold permits to look for oil in Australia. Such firms as Union Oil of California, Shell, Texaco, Delhi-Taylor and Kern County Land have so far drilled more than...