Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Antwerp to Zurich by delivering frozen broilers to Europe at 30.5? a lb. Last year the intake of chicken rose 23% in West Germany alone. Demand for chicken expanded briskly in the rest of Europe, and U.S. farmers, with shipments worth $45 million, grabbed nearly half of the import market...
Belin's principal concern on the Council has been the overhaul of the Council's parliamentary procedure. He was chairman of a special committee to revise the Council's rules; among the more import and changes subsequently adopted was a provision requiring councillors to submit motions at least five days before Council meetings, in order to insure proper consideration by the members...
...smell of bread" in an apartment over his father's bakery in Toronto. As a World War I private in the Canadian cavalry, he used his leaves to haunt the bread and biscuit factories of Britain. When he returned to Canada, he got his father to import some of the machines and recipes he had learned about. By the time the elder Weston died in 1924, the family business was already growing rapidly. But Garfield Weston was not satisfied. Said he: "I'm not going to build a costly monument to my father. I'm going...
Capacity to import is tied directly to export earnings and is therefore stagnant as well. Excluding Venezuela, which sparked an extraordinary $803 million injection of dollars for itself by selling oil concessions in 1957, Latin America had only a little more cash available for imports in 1961 ($7.19 billion) than it did four years before ($7.17 billion). To make matters worse, says the report, "the population of Latin America grew by approximately 12% during the period. Consequently, per capita capacity to import has tended to decline...
...they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire in any way--probably the nearest thing to a party label that could be pinned on Messrs. Miller et al. would be Far Out Liberal); the humor is echt British, but not unpleasantly so: an ingenious...