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Shopping was the prime lure. Import duties and local mark-up boost Cuban retail prices from 30% to 50% over U.S. levels. Many a canny Habanero found that he and his wife could buy a year's wardrobe in Miami and save enough to pay the airplane fare ($34.50 round trip) and vacation expenses. Havana merchants groused, but succeeded only in getting Miami stores to leave the prices out of their advertisements in Cuban newspapers...
...week's end enough mines had been flooded to make it necessary for France to import 1,000,000 tons of extra U.S. coal this winter, thus using up EGA credits earmarked for fats, cereals, cotton. The French press screamed for action, and the Queuille government finally decided to grasp the nettle firmly. Forty thousand troops and police reserves were mobilized and ordered to shoot if they met resistance. They seized twelve big mines, and the Commies, intimidated at last, put up almost no fight...
...government published a White Paper describing Britain's export-import program for 1948-49; it left no one breathless. Its figures showed, however, that the British people and the U.S. dollars they were getting under the Marshall Plan had been working hard and to good effect. Production in all key sectors of the nation's economy was substantially higher than in 1947. Agriculture, in spite of bad weather, was up 25% above the prewar level; industry was up 20%. Exports were 34% greater than they were ten years...
...biggest grain trader. Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were sold for feed. (Cargill got the Bureau of Customs to give it one year's time...
...Acting," confided Robert Morley, Co-Author-Star of Edward, My Son, Broadway's latest British import of delectable British corn, "is as easy as selling beer or vacuum cleaners." Being your own playwright, added Actor Morley, really makes the whole thing "quite simple. You write a large part for yourself, as I did . . . and wear the audience down. By the end of the evening they're reconciled...