Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight the little green fern, Rhodesia has already spent nearly $3,000,000 and has little to show for it. No chemical has yet been found that will kill the weed and leave fish unharmed. No native animal eats the weed. One possibility is to import manatees, the tropical American sea cows that are used in British Guiana to eat ditches clear of vegetation (TIME. Dec. 19). Another possibility is the coypu, or nutria, a South American aquatic rodent that has a voracious appetite for water plants. It reproduces almost as fast as Salvinia, and the scientists fear that...
Right before the eyes of the voters, the New Frontier employment agency put members of the U.S. Senate on the spot with the nomination of Charles M. Meriwether, 49, to be director of the Export-Import Bank-and the Senate did not like it a bit. Alabaman Meriwether was an acknowledged segregationist and 1950 campaign manager for Senatorial Candidate John Crommelin, racist and anti-Semite. Oregon's Wayne Morse suggested -and Meriwether stoutly denied-that he was a reformed alcoholic and a onetime Ku KIux Klansman. Meriwether's political know-how and his experience in the insurance business...
...maximum of $24 million a year, the U.S. poured in about twice that amount. As naive in business as in politics, the Laotians hardly knew how to handle their new wealth-until a few sharp Indian and Chinese traders rushed into Vientiane to show them. Favorite device: the import license. Laotians with political pull got import licenses for everything from feather dusters to nail polish to television sets-though there is no TV station in Laos. They could then buy foreign exchange at the official rate of 35 kip to the dollar, sell the dollars on the black market...
...look askance at some of his reform measures. They fear that government-run companies in the oil, construction and petrochemical industries will eventually take over their private competitors. Some U.S. manufacturers doing business in Venezuela have been pressured into setting up branch plants there, under government threats that their import permits might be revoked. The effect is to scare off other potential investors and to accelerate the process that has cut new U.S. investment in Venezuela from a 1957 high of $912 million to a 1960 low of $130 million...
VOLKSWAGEN U.S. SALES, running directly counter to most imported car sales, hit a monthly record in December of 15,523. VW's total 1960 car registrations soared 33% over 1959 to 159,995, while total import registrations were dropping from 1959's high...