Word: exports
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Right before the eyes of the voters, the New Frontier employment agency put members of the U.S. Senate on the spot with the nomination of Charles M. Meriwether, 49, to be director of the Export-Import Bank-and the Senate did not like it a bit. Alabaman Meriwether was an acknowledged segregationist and 1950 campaign manager for Senatorial Candidate John Crommelin, racist and anti-Semite. Oregon's Wayne Morse suggested -and Meriwether stoutly denied-that he was a reformed alcoholic and a onetime Ku KIux Klansman. Meriwether's political know-how and his experience in the insurance business...
...kong River, crashing down from a canyon in China's Yunnan province, then slowed by silt and sewage on its 1,600-mile run to the South China Sea, is the principal means of transportation and is known as "the soul of Laos." In normal times, the principal exports are illegal opium and a little tin, but in 1960, the main export was words - the $300,000 charged at the cable office to newsmen covering...
KENMORE: The U.S.S.R.'s latest export under the Lacey-Zarubin agreement, BALLAD OF A SOLDIER proves to be a tender if treacly treatment of Russian youngsters during the unparalleled suffering of the last war. Well worth seeing. Evenings...
Last week, fighting back, the government Department of Fine Arts temporarily suspended all licenses for the export of religious images. Will the measure do any good? There are nearly 21,000 monasteries in Thailand, and 200 known temples that have not yet even been excavated. With such a store of Buddhas still to be tapped, heads will roll in Thai temples for quite a time to come...
...industries above the minimum. Reason: low-wage industries are often prodded by a minimum-wage boost to increase productivity, cannot raise prices without pricing themselves out of the market. As for foreign competition, the President noted that "more than four-fifths of the commodities" affected by import or export trends" are already being produced by industries where wages are above his proposed minimum...