Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Bank and the U.S. Government's Export-Import Bank are doing their best to alleviate the capital shortage, but the aid falls far short of demand. Nor have private investors in the U.S. and Great Britain, traditionally major world exporters of venture capital, been able to supply the demand from overseas, especially since pressure for capital at home is greater than ever. Overseas, even in cases where investment opportunities compare favorably with those at home, a lack of political and economic stability and the threat of nationalization have acted as a deterrent...
...Karl Marx's faith in population increase, the government has embarked on a drastic birth-control program that will soon include free abortions and sterilization. The crux of the problem, Kinmond emphasizes, is that China's "main source of foreign credit" for heavy industrial equipment is the export of foodstuffs. "If, as in 1954, there is a poor crop, then China's industrialization falters or its forward march is maintained only by snatching the very food from the mouths of 630 million people, about two-thirds of whom are solely engaged in producing that food...
...carry out the Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist that importing countries guarantee "certain fixed market commitments for the future." He called the U.S. policy a "definite contravention" of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
...COTTON SURPLUS will be eliminated in two or three years if Government continues expensive export subsidies. Record exports of about 7,200,000 bales have already helped trim surplus from 12.9 million bales...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill...