Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...variety of uses to which the films have been put. Several large city police forces, for example, are using "The American Cop" to help instruct rookie patrolmen. A manufacturing concern, which had originally acquired prints of all films dealing with foreign countries to provide background information for their export division, discovered that interest in the world abroad was not confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary activities received more generous support when parishioners were brought, by the motion picture, directly...
...called a handful of others, all former Government administrators: Dr. Calvin Hoover, dean of the Graduate School of Duke University; Richard Bissell, professor of economics at M.I.T.; Dr. Edward Mason, professor of economics at Harvard; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, onetime president of the Export-Import Bank. They said they would rally around. That was Wednesday morning. Bellboys were bringing so many telegrams to Hoffman's ninth floor Statler suite, costing Hoffman so many quarter tips, that he finally ordered all wires held at the desk until they could be brought up in bundles...
...plant in Buffalo, world's largest flour milling plant, shut down because of a slump in demand, was scheduled to resume this week at only 50% of capacity. The slump, which has slowed many other mills, was blamed on 1) Government red tape, which has slowed up export licenses, and 2) high prices...
...Secretaries of Treasury, State, Commerce, the heads of the Federal Reserve System and the Export-Import Bank...
Next day George Marshall answered for the U.S. His Government, he said, would ask World Bank loans for Latin America, and make fresh funds available for new loans from the Export-Import Bank. But the kind of economic development Latin America needed, he said, was simply beyond the U.S. Government's capacity. His suggestion for latinos: invite private capital to help. To show that this need not mean economic bondage, he cited the use the U.S. made of foreign capital in its i gth Century industrialization...