Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hodges, 66, a former (1954-1960) Democratic Governor of North Carolina who once showed his salesmanship by posing in his underwear to promote his state's textile industry, was in John Kennedy's original Cabinet, made his most notable mark as Commerce Secretary by launching an export expansion program that helped boost U.S. exports from an annual $19.6 billion in 1960 to $25 billion now. But when he was first appointed, Hodges told friends that he would quit after four years. Last week he did-and Drug Executive Connor seemed to fit perfectly the presidential prescription...
...notice, severance pay and worker retraining has made British labor among the least protected in all Western countries and often moved workers to resist whatever changes are attempted. This situation encourages overemployment -one of Britain's main labor problems -makes it more difficult and expensive for firms to export, and tends to make all workers progress at the speed of the slowest...
...many countries, inflation seems incurable. As always, Latin economies desperately need foreign investment capital. But for all their frustrations, the Latin American nations succeeded this year for the first time in meeting the Alianza's goal of an overall 3% per capita product growth rate. Latin American export earnings rose 8%. And paced by the U.S., which has already invested $3.7 billion in the Alianza, there has been a notable increase in foreign aid to the member nations...
Died. Lord ("Billy") Rootes, 70, chairman and co-founder of the Rootes auto company and organizer of Britain's postwar export drive to the U.S., a ruddy, supercharged salesman who, with the help of his brother Sir Reginald Rootes ("I get the ideas and Reggie tells me why they can't be carried out"), turned his father's auto-sales firm into Britain's largest distributor by unloading cars as fast as they could be delivered, then, deciding that the manufacturers were "too sluggish," bought up the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Humber automaking firms...
Until the Moslem-Hindu partition that created Pakistan in 1947, the Adamjee family owned a jute mill near Calcutta and ran a thriving export business. Then partition left Pakistan with 42% of the world's jute crop and no jute mills. To Adamjee, a Moslem, his duty was clear. He liquidated his substantial holdings in India, moved his entire family to Pakistan, where the grateful government helped him finance the new nation's first jute mill. Today, the family's assets are $75 million. In West Pakistan, Adamjee's two brothers have constructed a $6.3 million...