Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During that time, the Government had purchased for export somewhere around 270 million bushels of grain. The President, a little hysterically, tried to make the grain speculators the villains (see BUSINESS). But there was no villain - only the law of supply & demand...
...Export-Import Bank authorized France to use $93 million (and Italy $32 million) in untapped reconstruction credits for emergency purchases of fuel. The Army bought $50 million worth of French francs to pay off the first installment on wartime debts for rent, transportation and food. The biggest lump sum was a preliminary divvy of $360 million in gold looted by the Germans: $104 million to France, $29.4 million to Austria, $4 million to Italy, $40 million to The Netherlands...
Wheat, the other scare commodity which Truman proposes for greater European export, still is being consumed by the College at normal levels durant reported. He agreed to poll student opinion before ordering outs in bread, wheat cereals, and other combinations containing wheat...
Queen Mary gave a matronly shove to a campaign to export ladies' handiwork (and thus import U.S. dollars) by contributing six flowery chair-covers which she had embroidered herself...
...sympathetic, soft-pencil sketches of bitter-bibbing charladies and cockney pub-dwellers were for several decades familiar to Punch and Tatler readers. The drawings had a good humor of their own, though the gags that went with them were too topical or parochial for export...