Word: imported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany last July to buy automobiles, spare parts, shoemaking machines, airplane tires and numerous other articles difficult to acquire in Bulgaria. Not having any dollars for these purposes, but having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited to the Control Council, but simply a purchasing mission with passports visaed by the Soviet occupation authorities...
...Government had studied every alternative before concluding that import restrictions were inescapable. British Foreign Secretary Bevin's idea of an Empire customs union was quickly rejected, for it would force Canada into the sterling bloc. Some Canadians suggested economic union with the U.S.-razing tariff walls and eventually tearing down the customs houses. This was politically impossible; in 1911 Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government was tossed out for proposing a milder trade reciprocity. Besides, economic union would almost certainly lead to political union...
...dwindling dollar supply; 'but they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production would rise...
Parker warned his fellow townsmen that U.S. exports are 2½ times greater than imports, that the rest of the world is running short of dollars with which to buy U.S. goods, that this "may well cause a serious recession in the U.S. economy." He hoped that his "Peso Pay-Off Day" would impress upon Janesville that "your Congressmen and Senators can go a long way toward averting this danger by reducing [import] barriers...
...that U.S. companies have enough unused and untaxable films in Britain to bring in money for at least six months (only those films which were imported after the tax was announced are subject to it). Another was that Britain's tax, although set upas an import duty, seemed in effect an income tax-and therefore in violation of an Anglo-American agreement designed to prevent double taxation on incomes. Hollywood felt that perhaps Britain could not make the tax stick...