Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land that could provide some of the lushest cattle and sheep pasturage in the world, wheat is being grown, encouraged by government price supports despite the world wheat glut. Ranchers, penalized by taxes and government cheap-meat policies, are producing less beef and wool-the country's mainstay exports. So serious are the shortages that 4,000 packinghouse employees have been laid off and the government has even been forced at times to import cattle, both for local consumption and for export as corned beef. Moreover. Uruguay's Swiss-style federal-council government must continue...
...flowing through it at only 40% of its pre-Suez rate.) For all her chronic political chaos, Syria has made notable economic progress since World War II. Irrigation schemes, mostly private, have more than doubled wheat production since 1938, and the cotton crop, Syria's main export, has tripled since...
BRITAIN'S ROLLS-ROYCE is starting big sales drive into U.S. luxury-car market, plans to export 20% of its production to U.S. Rolls has nearly tripled its U.S. distributorships (to 59) in past 60 days, will soon kick off newspaper ad campaign, and send a caravan on tour of Southwest cities to push its $12,500 Bentley and $12,800 Silver Cloud...
...Icelandic is negotiating for a sizable loan from the Export-Import Bank to buy new equipment, hopes to have two turboprop airliners on its Far North routes by 1959. Since faster, bigger planes will bring higher revenues, Icelandic expects to keep bargain fares for years to come. Says Craig: "They call us cut-rate, and I'm proud...
...master archaeological fence." Flapping about the palace in a stained silk dressing gown, he mourned: "Nonsense, nonsense, it's a small collection of little things. So I let my friends come to look at my collection. So I let them buy a few things. So I export something to America once in a while. What is all this talk about Etruscan antiquities? Nobody can prove the Etruscans even existed...