Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lopes was being called a "hired lackey of the trusts." After the lunch, where Lopes winningly upheld the need for foreign capital, the attack faded in all but the Reddest of newspapers. Then he got down to top priority work-negotiating a $150 million emergency loan with the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
Though U.S. firms, in a belated awakening, sent 60 delegates to Harrogate, they have taken the lead in developing only nine world standards. They have not worked at all on 58 of the 142 draft recommendations for standards now being considered, including standards for such big export items as steel and textile machinery. Many standards may therefore be set up contrary to U.S. design, shutting U.S. goods out of nations that adopt them as effectively as do high tariffs, currency restrictions or import quotas...
Cool Depths. Choreographer Robbins brought four ballets to Spoleto: Todd Bolender's Games, plus his own New York Export-Opus Jazz, Afternoon of a Faun and The Concert. In this quartet, Jazz-which Robbins regards as "my most important ballet in a long time"-was the only wholly new work. Set to a jazz-flavored score by Manhattan-born Composer Robert Prince, it offered a back-alley view of the "postures, attitudes and rhythms" of the teen-agers who run and "rumble" on U.S. city streets...
...year; production, ballooned by a worldwide planting spree during the Korean war, is increasing at the annual rate of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bags. Hardest hit is the world's No. 1 producer, Brazil, which last year earned 61% of its foreign exchange by exporting 14.3 million bags* worth $935 million. This year, with much of the world's coffee selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction is 13 million bags, worth $800 million. The Brazilian government has already paid for 15.4 million bags of surplus coffee...
ALUMINUM MEN will push for protection against foreign competition, most likely through steeper tariffs, quotas, or export subsidies. Domestic producers complain that U.S. duty on aluminum pig and ingot will drop from 1.3? per Ib. to 1.25? next month, while some foreign countries tax U.S. aluminum...