Word: importations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less apparent but no less potent price-boosting force, especially on imported goods, was the new foreign-exchange schedule of the peso announced by Finance Minister Alfredo Gómez Morales. The most spectacular jump was in the free market rate, which went from 9 to 14.25 to the dollar. At the same time, many import restrictions were taken...
...baseball crowd that jams Yankee Stadium for sell-out games, and only a minority of Americans-servicemen out-s'de the battle zone, families of men in action and civilians subject to military duty-were directly concerned even in a secondary way. For all its savagery and import, the Korean conflict was working little more hardship on most citizens than the Battle of Wounded Knee...
...State Department was first stunned, then furious. Nobody had told it that McCarran would bring up his bill, or that it stood a good chance of passing. State wasn't against lending Spain the money out of the Export-Import Bank, as a straight business proposition. But, like ECA, it was flatly opposed to handing Franco $100 million to do with as he pleased. Even nations like Britain, who were wartime allies, got no such favored treatment. ECA nations had been required to sign tough bilateral treaties with the U.S., to subject their spending plans to U.S. scrutiny...
...first time in ten years, American cigarettes were officially on sale in Paris last week. After about a year of negotiations, SEITA, the French government tobacco monopoly, made an agreement to import Camels (R. J. Reynolds) and Old Golds (P. Lorillard), pegged the price at 150 francs a pack, or about...
Londoners wanted coconuts, but the British government forbade their import. Obabunmi Aina, a 28-year-old law student from Nigeria (where coconuts are plentiful), wanted a London apartment. He couldn't get it because the greengrocer who owned it wanted too much money. Recently the British government lifted its import ban on coconuts. Obabunmi sent a hurry call to Nigeria. Two tons of coconuts arrived in London. Customers thronged the greengrocer's shop. Mr. & Mrs. Obabunmi last week were living in the greengrocer's apartment...