Word: importations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry's troubles, Carson added, come more from declining demand than from imports. "If all imports were stopped tomorrow, I do not see how that action would increase consumer demand. In a few years, we will be able to use every barrel of oil that we can produce, and probably every barrel we can import...
...special study mission, Congressmen Hays and Coffin interviewed some 125 leading Canadians in Montreal and Ottawa, heard familiar complaints about U.S. tariffs, oil import quotas, and price-cutting in sales of surplus wheat. They also found a nagging worry that U.S. corporations are gaining too much control over Canadian resources...
...IMPORT LID will be hammered down tighter on West Coast. Pressure is mounting in Washington for cut in quotas because imports to area have fallen 30% to 35% below ceiling of 220,100 bbl. per day owing to recession in demand. At very least, individual quotas of major companies will be slashed to make way for new importers, who have applied to bring...
CHINA-JAPAN TRADE DEALS are off. Businessmen from Japan have been ordered to leave Red China, all import-export licenses are invalid, and ballyhooed fiveyear, $560 million Chinese-Japanese barter deal is dead. Chinese claim break is due to Japanese Premier Kishi's "hostile attitude toward China," but a main reason is that Red Chinese are trying to welsh on some deals...
When informed of this belief, Mr. Zeehandler sold some hippos, some rhinos, and some long necked giraffes and obtained Hermione Esmerelda. He proceeded to contact John Foster Dulles, who declared that Hermione Esmerelda could not come to the United States. Such an import, said he, would violate an embargo on trade with Communist China...