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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry recognized the Market's potential from the start. U.S. corporations have been pouring capital into Europe at a record clip ($844 million in 1960 alone). And though the Common Market was expected to import fewer goods from the U.S., American exports to the six-nation area last year actually soared 42% (to $3.4 billion) over the 1959 level. In time, Common Market manufacturers, including U.S. subsidiaries, will undoubtedly supply a far higher proportion of the consumer goods, from plastic ice buckets to portable TV sets, that now come largely from the U.S. But the loss will be more...
...first step on the path to complete Arab unity," it was soon apparent to Syrians that their wealth was being siphoned off to prop impoverished Egypt. Nasser's land reforms alienated landowners and hurt the economy. Businessmen, after long years of laissez faire, bitterly opposed Nasser's import restrictions, currency controls, a new income tax, nationalization of banking and insurance...
...brazen face against a brazen face," explained it was a simple matter of instinct. But later upon reflection he wrote: "If such are the manners of Women of Rank, Fashion and Reputation in France, they can never support a Republican Government. We must therefore take great care not to import them into America...
...EXPORT-IMPORT BANK. Restricted by law to financing the purchase of specific U.S. goods and services by foreign nations, the Ex-Im Bank has broadened its mission to include general lines of credit to Latin American countries for basic development projects. Extent of the speedup: 18 loans for $456.3 million (mostly for U.S.-made road-building machinery and agricultural equipment) since March, v. nine loans worth $280 million in the same six months last year...
...nation's doctors are gone) as "traitors" and announced that their citizenship was to be revoked. To guard his new Cuba against such treachery, Castro announced that another 1,672 Cuban youths will soon sail to be "educated" behind the Iron Curtain. He also said that he would import 100 Soviet professors to teach Cubans a new language-Russian...