Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep all this fashionably exposed flesh clean, Capri's hostelers must still import fresh bath water by tankers from Naples. The hauling contract has proved to be a gold mine: a cubic meter of water costing 4 lire at Naples sells for 300 lire on Capri. The old adage that "wine is cheaper than water in Capri," is truer than ever...
...recommended that the U.S. could do to make it easier for venture capital. But the big job of attracting U.S. capital, OIT implied, is squarely up to the foreign governments themselves. Unless they relax import controls and other obstacles, there is scant hope that they will get much expansion in U.S. investments...
...would fit nicely with his sugar business: he forced a foreign-owned distillery of industrial alcohol, the only one in Egypt, out of business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons-a-year nitrate fertilizer plant financed by an Export-Import Bank loan, the first in Egypt, and a half interest in the contracting of a $10 million hydroelectric project on the Nile...
...host of Government agencies which have since gone their own ways, including: the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"); Commodity Credit Corp., through which RFC lent $1.5 billion to farmers during the Depression; the Export-Import Bank; the Rural Electrification Administration...
...Middle East. With the help of Lebanese capital, it will build a plant to assemble refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines and other electrical appliances at Beirut. By manufacturing locally, Westinghouse hopes to undersell British, German and U.S. competitors who must pay high shipping and customs costs to import finished products into Arab countries...