Word: importations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laws, persuaded Standard-Vacuum to build a $35 million refinery near Bombay. Specifically, the government would scrap the law that Indians must own 51% of the stock of a foreign company. It would give unbreakable guarantees against nationalization for 25 years at least. The refinery will be allowed to import crude oil free of duty, and will get tariff protection...
Like Britain, Japan must import raw materials from which to fashion exports. And, like Britain, Japan cannot earn enough dollars with her exports to pay for her imports. Before the Korean war, Japan was on the ragged edge of bankruptcy. Since the war, Japanese businessmen have reaped huge profits from more than $500 million in U.N. orders (e.g., freight cars, transportation services, repairs to U.N. tanks, planes, ships and artillery pieces). They have enjoyed the profits without assuming the responsibilities...
...What we would like to see is an end to the warfare over educational methods. All the methods are useful. The textbook should be supplemented with the field trip; the ukase from the platform should be tested by the experiment in the laboratory . . . But of what import are the various methods of learning if learning itself has no substance, no corpus of laws, no end? The business of American educators is to seek to establish the nature of man and the universe, and to make a valiant try at formulating the laws that govern each . . . Certainty may elude...
...years the Israelis brought in 665,000 newcomers, more than doubling the population. It was as though the U.S. were.to import 50 million new people every year. At one point "Operation Ali Baba" was flying in 1,000 Jews a day from hostile Iraq; "Operation Magic Carpet" flew 55,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel. It was too much for the frail young country to stand...
...said that although a 12-billion-peso debt existed when he took over, Argentina "does not owe a cent to anyone" now. Fact is that Argentina owes $125 million borrowed last year from the U.S. Export-Import Bank...