Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrightsman bought for $392,000 the Duke and Duchess of Leeds's portrait by Goya of the first Duke of Wellington. The auctioneer's gavel had hardly banged for the last time when a group of Tory M.P.s started a campaign to prevent Wrightsman from getting an export license-and that could mean, as it has with other purchasers, that Wrightsman might have to wait months before the government decides whether he can take his painting home, or must resell it in Britain at some vague "fair price." The British are getting ever more touchy about art treasures...
...understandable that you want to keep these treasures that you yourselves once imported from ever being exported. But in view of your export restrictions, there may be some among you who will wonder whether buying old masters in Zurich and New York is quite cricket. Insofar as you have closed your own market, should your museums take advantage of the open markets that remain...
...this outside aid has made striking changes in Mongolia. The sweeping mile-high plateau between the snowy Altai mountains and the Gobi desert is now gashed with gang-plowed collective fields, which have yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide...
...brightest, most aggressive young men of Africa are generally the labor leaders, he who controls Africa's trade unions today may well control the continent tomorrow. No one is more aware of this than Ghana's ambitious Kwame Nkrumah, who for months has been striving to export his own authoritarian Marxist-style unionism to all of Africa. But everywhere Nkrumah turns, he finds the same stubborn opponent, the West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism...
...before the convention he became the first Southern Governor to back the young Senator for President. Alabama still went for Lyndon Johnson in Los Angeles, but Patterson got his reward this spring when Charles M. Meriwether, his old campaign manager, was nominated by Kennedy as a director of the Export-Import Bank. Meriwether was eventually confirmed by the Senate despite reports of connections with the Klan...