Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances might be slim. Though Tshombe still has considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says one of Tshombe's old ministers: "We were puppets protecting European interests, and now nobody wants to pull our strings. It's all over. We have no choice but to accept the dictates...
Specifically, he objected to the Alianza's taking credit for aid under U.S. Public Law 480, which allows the sale of surplus food for soft local currency, and for the operations of the Export-Import Bank, which has in fact been less active lately. He accused the U.S. Congress of lopping 40% from what he considered a Kennedy promise of $1 billion-worth of aid in Latin America in 1962-when all that Kennedy actually requested was $600 million. And he found a "lack of coordination among U.S. organizations designed to finance the Alianza, and lack of a central...
...Longer Chicken. The industry's big export markets have already been crimped by newly imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising in Europe. Last week, following an example set on British TV, two Canadian cigarette makers agreed not to advertise on Canadian TV until 9 p.m., when children are presumably safely abed. After many U.S. universities banned cigarette ads from campus publications at the urging of the American Cancer Society, five major cigarette companies last week announced that they will discontinue all campus advertising and promotion...
Cunard has ripped out the Edwardian trappings of two of its ships, installed bowling lanes and nightclubs and rechristened the ships Carmania and Franconia. Along its Mediterranean stops, the American Export Lines provides variety in entertainment by picking up Spanish flamenco dancers in one port, carrying them to the next, and then taking aboard another set of locals. The Italian Line hires hostesses-often some one who can claim a titled name-to help passengers get acquainted...
...acquired other companies, and at the start of World War II were asked to build a huge paper mill by Dictator Getulio Vargas, who feared that the war would cut off Brazil's paper imports. When the Klabins objected that a U.S. gearing for war would not export machinery for the plant, Vargas telephoned Franklin Roosevelt and got the Klabins what they wanted...