Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans. From his war profiteering, March went legitimate: he bought huge tracts of Majorcan real estate, invested in the Spanish sugar trust, chemicals, coal and oil. Though he held government monopolies on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, he nonetheless continued to smuggle raw tobacco to avoid paying import taxes. Once, according to legend, he imported a shipment of right-hand gloves from Czechoslovakia, later bought a shipment of matching left-hand gloves, thus neatly sidestepping government import duties on finished goods...
...National Education Council, the Teamsters Union, and the National Committee on Import and Export Policies will have openings for especially qualified applicants...
...products-Finland's biggest export-will be free to compete on an equal footing, Finland will not reduce tariffs as swiftly as the other EFTA countries on a range of Finnish specialties: varnishes, polishes, small electric motors, sauna whisks and birch twigs. To satisfy Russia, Finland will keep import quotas on those goods that Russia chiefly supplies, e.g., fuels and fertilizer. But as one former Finnish ambassador to Washington explains: "You cannot understand what EFTA means to us-it is our first formal link to the West since the war. We have shown how much it means...
Practical Dream. The biggest test of the new process will come in Venezuela, where a Stratmat furnace is being installed in the government's new $340 million steel plant. After building the plant, the Venezuelans found that they would have to import expensive coke to run it. But with Stratmat's process, they expect to run on local poor-grade coal. If it works as expected, the government is considering converting the whole plant to the process...
Born. To Chiang Hsiao-wen, 25, Chiang Kai-shek's eldest grandson who is in the export-import business in Taipei, and Nancy Chiang, 22, granddaughter of onetime Gimo comrade in arms: their first child, a daughter, and first great-grandchild of 73-year-old Chiang; in Taipei...