Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million of interest due this month on past U.S. loans. There was every indication that Congress will, after some protest, grant the request. The U.S. was ready to provide the International Monetary Fund with approximately $500 million in cash. There is also talk in Washington that the U.S. Export-Import Bank might be ready to advance perhaps $200 million in loans to finance purchases of Western Hemisphere...
...Cars? Automen last week were brimming with optimism that 1957 car sales will rank second only to the 7,400,000 of 1955. Predicted G.M.'s Curtice: "The industry in 1957 should produce and the domestic market absorb approximately 6,500,000 cars and 900,000 trucks. Including export, production should approximate 8,300,000 cars and trucks." Curtice candidly admitted that a year ago he had been overoptimistic in anticipating a 6,500,000-car year for 1956. But this year, said he, "the supply of new cars in the hands of dealers on Jan. 1 will...
...western border of Egypt sits the five-year-old desert nation of Libya, whose chief export is dried esparto grass, and whose income comes largely from giant British and U.S. air bases. Its people are so poorly educated that Egypt eagerly supplies it with teachers, professional men, even government officials...
Precocious Novelist Franchise Sagan, 21, is probably France's most successful export to the U.S. since French fried potatoes and Chanel No. 5. Her neat, sentimentally acid little accounts of old-hearted juveniles and middle-aged delinquents were widely cheered by the critics, eagerly bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper...
Broker Bay has other substantial holdings, including a controlling interest (282,000 out of the 1,200,000 shares) in American Export Lines, where she is chairman of the executive committee. "After my husband's death," she says, "I couldn't sit back and cut coupons. I like a man's world." She also finds time to care for three adopted Norwegian children, try new recipes (out of 50 cookbooks), follow the fortunes of a stable of racing thoroughbreds, sail a 12-meter racing yacht, oversee a score of philanthropies (brain tumor, cerebral palsy, other medical research...