Word: imported
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ulbricht also summoned some 1,500 party functionaries for a pep talk. "After all," he said, "when housewives come into the stores and can't find milk or butter, they begin to criticize. You must understand that we have to pay for all our imports with expensive products. Therefore we can't import any more food than is absolutely necessary." Ulbricht also had a few words for the commissars about East Germany's restive farmers. "You must do a better job of explaining questions of international politics," urged Ulbricht, "so that all the farmers understand that...
Returning last year, Selz hoped the officialdom would surrender the veto, but was disappointed. Then he got a bright idea. Selz simply asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...
...land reform at all is a mismanaged land reform. In Bolivia, peasants moved into the big landowners' fields after the 1952 revolution, barbecued the livestock and planted only enough crops for their individual families. Land reform failed and now the country, which was once self-sufficient, has to import more than half its food. With the same kind of rush, Fidel Castro grabbed Cuba's richest landholdings, turned most into cooperatively owned ventures. Food production fell immediately, and Castro switched to the Soviet scheme of state-controlled "People's Farms." But the People's Farms...
...British have such a dead-keen sense of humor that they will burst into laughter on hearing that Prince Philip likes to call his wife "Sausage." Perhaps desperate for relief, penny-wise BBC-TV spent $10,000 last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like...
Detroit's new drive is to get a bigger share of that market-as well as the smaller, fast-expanding markets in Australia, Asia and Africa. U.S. automakers realize that their U.S.-made cars are generally too big, costly and thirsty for countries where import duties, taxes and gasoline prices are skyhigh. Last year, in the world's increasing markets, the U.S. exported only 117,000 cars, little more than half the 1955 total. Detroit has come to believe that the best way to compete abroad is to build foreign cars, with foreign workers, in foreign plants. Says...