Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaccine. Reason: there was no stockpile to draw from, and vaccine would continue to be dribbled out to all regions, whether or not polio had broken out, on a "fair-shares-for-all" basis. When a public-spirited businessman offered to buy U.S. vaccine, he was denied permission to import...
Some Britons (especially physicians) with U.S. connections are getting "unsolicited gifts" of American vaccine for their children. More U.S. vaccine is being smuggled in, sold on the black market. The Sunday Express asked angrily: "Why did the Ministry refuse to import the Salk vaccine offered by America [4,000,000 cc., offered last winter]? How can they pretend it is unsafe, yet at the same time allow the privileged few to accept presents of the vaccine from American friends...
...this point, and after all banks had closed for the weekend, Gaillard was ready for his big step. It was devaluation, but with a difference. The franc was devalued to 420 to the dollar in all tourist transactions. Imports in effect would cost 20% more, except on those imports deemed vital to the continuing expansion of French industry. On these "exceptions," such as fuel and key raw materials (wool, cotton and steel products), accounting for about 60% of French imports, the rate would remain 350 to the dollar. The calculated effect: a cut in import spending. Next, to give France...
...free enterprise created by Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. He has also pushed tax concessions and government-backed credits for exports, trimmed away many of the restrictions that plague business in other European countries. Today, 90% of all the goods flowing into West Germany from the dollar area have no import quotas v. 67% three years ago. Although there are some limits on foreign investment by German businessmen, they are so high as to be almost meaningless...
HOWARD HUGHES is also target of trustbusters. Justice Department charged that his Hughes Tool Co. divided world markets to prevent import into U.S. of German-made oil and gas well-drilling equipment that would compete with him. Suit says that since 1950 Hughes has illegally pooled patents and consulted on prices with West Germany's Alfred Wirth...