Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million and stand-by credit of $739 million, its biggest single deal to date. The fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers at the expense of others...
...against previous official predictions of $350 million. Even at the risk of unemployment from the tightening of money by the Bank of England fortnight ago, said Thorneycroft, Britain will defend the proud pound. To add to her resources, she will draw down a $500 million credit from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, can also call on her $738.5 million stand-by credit from the Monetary Fund...
FIRST U.S. SUPERMARKET in a Communist country proved such a thumping success at Zagreb Fair that Yugoslav government's export-import agency will buy the market's refrigerator display cases, prepackaging equipment, shopping carts and checkout stands for about $30,000, use them to start supermarkets of its own. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslavs trooped through U.S. supermart during 15-day fair...
...diplomat who knew him well says that if Mikoyan had emigrated to the U.S. he would now be "heading his own export-import firm with a triplex apartment on Park Avenue." But ex-Ambassador Walter ("Beedle") Smith, less impressed, says, "Take away his ZIS limousine and Mikoyan would look like just another rug peddler in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo...
...talking loudly in public places, telling the British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak correct English...