Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold. Since 1946, by the colony's own report, some $601 million worth of gold has poured into-and through-Macao (pop. 200,000). Most of it also passed through the hands of Dr. Pedro Lobo, onetime chief economic officer of Macao, who is credited with monopolizing gold import licenses for Macao's "gold syndicate...
...which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all." Danilo Dolci, the erratic but militant Italian reformer who settled in Partinico and runs a series of private settlement houses for slum dwellers that have stirred Italy's conscience, believes that Sicily should import a team of U.S.-trained sociologists to study the roots of Sicily's distress so that economic aid might be made more effective. Most of Sicily's own spokesmen simply call for that standard 20th century nostrum: rapid industrial development of the island...
...deals behind the Iron Curtain, Che got more than $100 million worth of promised Communist aid-much of it in the form of factories to produce such former U.S. imports as knives, radios, cameras, tubing, flour, cable, screwdrivers, electric motors, hinges, light bulbs, farm machines, printing presses, office equipment, medical instruments. The deal also included a barter exchange-sugar, the nation's major export, for oil, the major import. To refine the Russian crude, Che seized the three foreign refineries-Shell, Esso and Texaco-without compensation...
...president, who would automatically become the party's nominee for Premier. Kishi's choice was Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda. But ability or ideology had little to do with the battle. As is their custom, big Japanese business firms, hoping for future friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent, it was the most corrupt convention in the party's short history. One happy delegate from southern Kyushu explained how the money went...
TURKISH OIL FIND near Adana by Socony Mobil yielded biggest flow (240 bbl. a day), best quality oil yet found in Turkey. The gusher rouses hopes that oilmen have struck edge of vast reservoir whose oil might end a major import drain on Turkish economy...