Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserves wholehearted U.S. support. In Saigon, Khanh was at least trying to consolidate his leadership in ways big and small, and with a lot of brave talk. He dispatched his comely wife on visits to Vietnamese and American military hospitals, pleased Mekong Delta poultry farmers by halving the export tax on ducks, ordered the late President Diem's old palace converted into an arts and science museum. The little Premier also announced a tightening up of the influence-riddled draft system under which wealthy youths in Saigon have long dodged military service. "It is difficult to admit," said Khanh...
...Triple Subsidy for cotton, recently passed, calls for annual expenditures in excess of six hundred million dollars to accomplish these general purposes: support the price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...
...place of the monstrous program which the Senate has passed, there should be substituted a program of direct, income-supporting payments to cotton producers. This would at least eliminate the need for the export subsidy and for offsetting doles to the textile industry...
...nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that such measures may brake Europe's boom too hard, but political leaders insist that drastic action is needed to stop the rise in export prices and narrow the trade deficits that have been growing dangerously in Italy and Britain...
...passed by the Senate, the measure guaranteed wheat farmers who agree to limit their acreage a support price of $2 per bu. for wheat sold for domestic human consumption, and $1.55 per bu. for export wheat. Textile mills would receive a subsidy of about 60 to allow them to buy U.S. grown cotton at the world price of 240 per lb. Cotton growers, while receiving a 300-per-lb. support price, would be paid a bonus for reducing plantings...