Word: importations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nationalization act, say Bolivia's superheated nationalists, was equaled only by the necessity for it. Determined to assert the fact of their nationhood, they are willing to risk biting off the hand that feeds them. Tin pays for 50% of the food that they must now import from abroad. It is the foundation of their teetering economy, source of 80% of their foreign exchange and almost half of their government revenue. And for years Bolivian tin-and Bolivia itself-has been dominated by the three expropriated companies: Patiәo, Hochschild, Aramayo...
...dusk on a drowsy Sunday, reporters filed hurriedly past the guards at the Atomic Energy Commission building in Washington for a special announcement. The announcement was muffled in the AEC's usual cautious language, but its import was still overwhelming: the U.S. has succeeded in a test explosion of a hydrogen weapon in mid-Pacific...
What I did do, was to criticize the friendly attitude of the Democratic governments--including the United States--toward the Peron dictatorship which was and still in economy. I particularly referred in my criticism to a "credit" of 125 million dollars extended in 1950 by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to the Argentine government in order to rescue it from its calamitous financial condition. But I never exhorted anybody but the Argentines themselves to stand up and solve our Argentine problem...
Since mid-September, Elmer has done his act over & over for the benefit of farmers in Italy, France and Holland, all of which are increasing their corn crop, to save import dollars. MSA figured that the farmers could raise even more if they learned to harvest in the traditional U.S. style instead of lugging each ear home to be stripped at a husking bee around the family hearth...
Allende, an expert on South American affairs, described Argentina's economic situation as "acute." He pointed to the decreased output of wheat in Argentina, once the world's second largest wheat exporter, and said the country was now forced to import at least 6 million bushels yearly from the U.S. Allende cited this and decreased industrial outputs as results of the growing "passive resistence" to the Peron regime...