Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printing manuscripts critical of Communist life with the aid of an emigre organization devoted to the overthrow of the Soviet government. They are part of a growing underground of talented young people who, far from aspiring to join the official Soviet Writers Union, write for one another or for export, publish in typewritten secret journals, and believe that they cannot be creative without at times being critical of the government. Arrested last January, they were in jail for a year before their trial began...
...their dependents-to save $500 million; deferment for two years of all but what the President called "the most important, urgent and necessary" travel outside the Western Hemisphere to save $500 million of the $4 billion now being spent abroad each year by U.S. tourists; a series of export promotion aids to increase the U.S. trade surplus, which now runs at more than $4 billion a year, by an additional $500 million (see BUSINESS...
...least a decade, the nuclear-weapon and missile-development programs have been top-priority items for Peking, and are generously supplied with scarce capital equipment and even scarcer trained manpower. China is rich in the raw materials of the nuclear age, even used to export uranium ore to Russia before the ideological split in 1960. Its gaseous-diffusion plant at Lanchow is estimated to turn out enough U-235 to build some 20 bombs a year, and Peking now has as many as 80 bombs of various kinds in various stages of development. That rate will likely soar sharply...
...Peabody's design to refloat Lebanon's most important bank, the airline, real estate and other holdings will all be spun off into a separate investment company. Large depositors, including the U.S. Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp., which had $22 million in Intra as an export loan covering surplus crop shipments, will be paid off in stock in the new company. Investors with less than 250,000 Lebanese pounds (about $80,000) in the bank will be able to get half their money back within the next three years, will receive the other half in stock...
...computer business, 90% of the microcircuit industry, 40% of its automaking, and sizable shares of chemicals, farm machinery and oil. In Britain, U.S. companies own half of all modern industry, employ one of every 17 British workingmen, manufacture 10% of all British goods for home consumption or export. U.S. firms also squeeze out twice as much profit from invested capital as their British competitors. Of this, they ship $225 million a year home, reinvest the rest for the long term abroad...