Word: import
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps aware that the trenchcoat is the uniform of the Radcliffe girl, one manufacturer has produced a coat called the "Radcliff" (spelled without an "e"). The promotion manager obviously did not graduate from Harvard nor from Radcliffe. The coat is a Valmeline Import, made in West Germany...
...dealt India a brutal blow. Across the north-central farm belt in recent weeks some 4,000,000 tons of grain have been lost in the worst drought to hit India since 1951. Just to keep the 25 million people in the drought area alive, India will have to import an additional 2,000,000 tons of grain, at an estimated cost of another $100 million in foreign exchange...
...Instead of an increase of 15 million tons in grain production, they now hope for 10 million-far short of enough to keep pace with India's 5,000,000 yearly births. Power and electricalequipment projects have been dropped. To save foreign exchange, the government has slapped strict import controls on luxury goods. Despite these measures, the huge Rihand hydroelectric dam in Uttar Pradesh stands useless for lack of $8,000,000 to buy electric generators...
...Brattle's latest Gallic import is unaffectedly gay, fresh, witty, and delightful without a single existential, soul-searching or morbid note. Fernandel is in his very best and unhackneyed form and Suzy Delair as his slightly dumpy but not unattractive wife is fully his match...
...nonpolitical council, whose corporate members range from huge General Motors to small Insular Lumber Co., called for an increased flow of private U.S. capital abroad, more lending authority for the Government's Export-Import Bank. It also put itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...