Word: importation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less apparent import, e.g., one Prince company makes a currency-changing machine capable of being used at race tracks...
...report on anyone suspected of being a Communist or a rebel. Furthermore, through a kind of super PX that just grew and grew in the past year, the army also runs a financial empire that even U Nu would find hard to dislodge. Among its activities: a bookshop, bank, import-export bureau, bus company, electrical-appliance outlets, a fuel-supply firm, a department store, a shipping line, the control of nearly all fisheries, as well as plans to sell everything from shoes to paint to coke...
...with the government-run National Marketing Corp. Next he turned to the Cabinet itself, firing Secretary of Commerce Pedro Hernaez, the party treasurer, whose strategic position made him an ideal political fund raiser among businessmen. He also fired Finance Secretary Jaime Hernandez, whose job included the granting of dollar import licenses. As new Finance Secretary he named energetic Economist Dominador Aytona, 41. budget commissioner under the late incorruptible President Ramon Magsaysay. Aytona has already turned up 50 million pesos ($25 million) worth of questionable transactions, and has proposed indicting 50 customs employees...
RUSSIAN CARS will be sold in U.S. by Syracuse Auto Dealer Robert Castle, who plans to import some 10,000 four-cylinder, 45-h.p. Moskviches during the next two years. Price...
...IMPORT SURGE in December, to a record $1.5 billion, cut U.S. trade surplus for 1959 to the lowest amount since World War II, $1.1 billion-even though December exports rose to a two-year high of $1.7 billion. U.S. wound up 1959 with commercial exports of $16.3 billion, imports of $15.2 billion...