Word: import
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CRUDE-OIL IMPORTS must be cut, warns ODM. With industry planning imports of 352,000 bbls. daily v. 287,000 maximum advised by Government, ODM has notified industry of its "real concern" about effects on domestic production, hints it may seek import curbs if industry persists...
James R. Killian, Jr., president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also spoke at the meeting and declared that Harvard and M.I.T. "import money and men into Cambridge and export ideas...
...real barriers to increases in US-Soviet trade far surpass licensing requirements. The "strategic" classification itself is so stringent as to prohibit exportation of anything Russia seeks to import. In addition to keeping out of the USSR anything helpful to Soviet military potential, export controls also ban commodities which could in any long-run, remote way be useful to Red industrial development. Naturally Russia has little yearning for baby bibs and dentures, so there are declared non-strategic. With supply and demand stubbornly entrenched back to back, US-USSR trade had consequently dwindled to practically nothing. An unencouraging US official...
...made only partial reports in most cases. But taken together, the reports told a murky story of top-to-bottom official corruption that got its cue from Perón and extended down to such lowly posts as zoo keepers (one of whom appropriated the zoo's imported canaries for his private collection). Some tidbits: ¶ Perón did his mother-in-law out of half of her bequest from the late Eva Perón, then with a medieval flourish had Evita's brother, Juan Duarte, killed because he knew too much.* ¶ The dictator lavished...
Chile's experience with controls started out in 1931 as a Depression attempt to subsidize business by giving varying values to the peso (which had been traded freely at eight to the dollar). Depending on their utility, as evaluated by the bureaucracy, various imports got various rates; e.g., whisky was made proportionately more costly to import than milk. Export rates, too, were adjusted to let commodities-in theory at least-meet foreign competition; there was a "copper dollar," a "wine dollar," a "nitrate dollar" and a "sulphur dollar." Soon the government was in the satisfying business of creaming...