Word: exporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fretting about U.S. industry's "export of jobs" to lower-wage foreign lands, leaders of two major U.S. unions-the Machinists and the Steelworkers-last week urged Congress to restrict corporate expansion abroad. Next day, at his press conference. President Kennedy used their plea to press his own drive for powers to negotiate sweepingly lower reciprocal tariffs. His argument: if tariff walls stay high, U.S. companies will continue to elude them by setting up branches abroad. "This," said the President, "is a matter of importance to United States workers...
China's economic imbalance was so bad that Communist trade delegations turned up in Australia, France and Canada to buy $362.4 million worth of food grains. Red China's export trade collapsed because of inability to make shipments. To meet commitments abroad, Peking emptied its treasury by sending to London silver bars and gold bullion, including melted-down coins from conquered Tibet. At home the time had come to look for scapegoats...
...arisen as a result of the arrest and disappearance of several persons"), said Woodward, democracy was looking up in Trujilloland. "A vigorous political opposition acts openly, opposition newspapers circulate, key figures closely associated with the former regime have departed." The U.S. therefore recommended, he said, that sanctions prohibiting the export of petroleum products and trucks to the Dominican Republic be lifted. Remaining economic sanctions would stay in effect pending further progress toward democracy...
...payments gap has narrowed from last year's $3.9 billion to an anticipated $2.3 billion this year (see chart). But in very recent months the gap has begun to widen again. Economic expansion in the U.S. has brought on a new demand for imports at a time when exports are declining. The Administration hopes to reverse this trend by spurring an energetic export drive. Last week some 2,000 businessmen who gathered in Manhattan for the annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council expressed confidence that the export drive would succeed...
...Gordeyev Family (Artkino), a Russian export amplified from a novel (Foma Gordeyev) by Maxim Gorky, is a visual experience that roars across the screen with the rage and razmakh of a flash fire on the steppes. Unfortunately it is also a piece of Marxist propaganda that suggests Premier Khrushchev might profitably send some of his moviemakers to Siberia-to stimulate corn production...