Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessman Harriman had dealt long and intimately with Europe's politicians and problems. He had attended almost every Big Three conference, had ad ministered lend-lease in London, served as ambassador to Russia and to Great Britain. As Secretary of Commerce, he had dealt with allocations and export licenses; as chairman of the Harriman committee (which took careful measure of the U.S. economy), he had helped fashion ERP. "He is almost the indispensable man," said Hoffman. This week the Senate approved his nomination...
...tearful and utterly pathetic. One of the few old friends who came to see me came only because, she said, 'I'm in so much trouble already that seeing you doesn't matter.' An Action Committee had put her out of her job with an export firm and her husband had lost his with the Ministry. She had been informed that they would be given new jobs 'according to their physical abilities. Another friend, a professor, tearfully expressed what is perhaps the underlying feeling among Czechs: 'It is so lonely,' he said...
...terrible time getting the necessary export permit, a document about ten pages long, smudged and finger-marked, dotted with tax stamps, official stamps, signatures and more signatures. I've forgotten a lot of the things I had to do, but the following stand out clearly...
...great day had come-I could apply for export permit. The Finance Ministry said I must have a certificate of export from the Cultural Ministry on four framed water colors which were the only possessions I had bought in Czechoslovakia. I blew up, antagonized officers, apologized, went to Cultural Ministry, got new special appraisal of pictures, more witnesses, more bribes, another certificate, countersign-ers, paid export duty, received permit, entertained customs while packing, paid customs. It was pay, pay, pay-and then it was all over. "The only thing I learned from all this is how to distinguish between Communists...
...enthused America, speaking through its Government, can make American democracy an article of export. The Christian concept of the dignity of man is the strongest revolutionary force in the world. But because we lack imagination or understanding, we have allowed the materialistic and brutal verbiage of Communism to gain a greater export currency than our own belief which springs from eternal sources...