Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should we export at all. Politically speaking, any attempt at economic self-sufficiency and insulation would only lead to political isolation. Economically, American industry, geared to its present high level of output, must find outside markets for its surpluses if it is to prevent production and employment cutbacks. Despite the fact that these surplus products leave the country and are of no further value to us, our level of employment and income depends upon our exports. In order to export, then, without materially weakening our real wealth, we must accept imports as repayment. Here the reciprocal agreements play their part...
...crux of the matter is that the American woolen industry and any other American business is prosperous when business conditions at home are good--and then only. America must rid itself of its surplus production through foreign trade if it is to prosper. And America can export only if it accepts imports of approximate value as repayment. Through the medium of the reciprocal trade agreements, the gradual attainment of these conditions has been made possible. The best interests of the nation will be served if the trend continues toward and not away from tariff reductions...
...fresh meat rations, and warned that bread and bacon rations might be cut. Mrs. Rose Wood of Arrington, Cheshire, sent Food Minister John Strachey two ounces of bacon and an ounce of cooking fat with a sizzling note suggesting that he "take this back and export it with the other things...
Added Mrs. Wood: "Why don't you export yourself with it?" The pubs got word of a cut in beer deliveries, perhaps by as much as 50%, because breweries were hard hit by conservation cuts in coal allocations. So were thousands of homes, Stores, offices, factories. (There was one chirpy note. London's Tribune whistled: "Now let's be reasonable. This wide-eyed enthusiasm for bad news can be overdone...
...result, Britain was far short of her export goal (175% of her 1938 average). The export drive, off to a brave start, reached 120% of the 1938 average last July, then leveled off to 117%. But in December it slumped...