Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales manager calling in his men for a pep talk, President Kennedy summoned 300 top businessmen to Washington to hear him and his top Cabinet officers whip up a bit of enthusiasm. His message: get out there-away out there-and sell. The two-day White House Conference on Export Expansion was attended last week by some pretty good salesmen, including IBM's Thomas Watson Jr., RCA's David Sarnoff, Raytheon's Charles Francis Adams and Gillette's Carl Gilbert-all of whom paid $50 for the privilege of attending. But the President complained that...
...companies had just held the share of world sales they had six years ago, said the President, that would have been "more than enough to eliminate our entire balance-of-payments deficit." Greater export volume can also dramatically help the U.S. unemployment situation, since every $1 billion in exports means the creation of 150,000 new jobs...
...also needs a stepped-up sales effort overseas if it is to maintain its image as the world's most advanced industrial nation, an image that is being chipped at by less advanced but more aggressive export countries...
...President had his own suggestion about how to raise exports: cut prices. Europe does well in many export areas, he said, "because European producers, unlike American producers, respond to excess capacity by reducing prices in order to maintain production, rather than reducing production to maintain prices...
Houses & Medicine. By scraping up money from such sources as the Export-Import Bank and the Peace Corps, Moscoso hopes to stretch out his budget for a while. But Alliance economists are busy figuring out scaled-down programs, even though there is a possibility that the Senate might reverse the House action. A $150 million cutback could mean abandoning plans next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan...