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Ocean-going vessels have been coming into Chicago since 1931, when the Swedish freighter, Anna, docked there. But the real expansion in the trade developed after the war, when French and German lines joined Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian shippers in the service. In 1947, the export-import total was 66,774 tons; last year it rose to an estimated 225,000 tons. All the ships are running with capacity loads. One reason there are not still more ships in the trade: Great Lakes ports are short the docks to handle them without wasteful waiting...
...Paris and London. In the House of Commons, Laborite Leader Clement Attlee asked whether the Bermuda meeting would be preliminary to "a talk with Mr. Malenkov." Answered Churchill: "Yes, sir. It is my main hope that we may take a definite step forward to a meeting of far greater import." In the National Assembly, Mayer said: "The aim . . . will be to define . . . unity of views on the problems to be debated during a four-power meeting . . ." But Washington leaks insistently denied that the Big Three conference was necessarily a preliminary to anything. And from New Delhi, Secretary of State John...
Look East, Old Europe. Next to the Iron Curtain, European and Japanese traders resent the thickets of U.S. tariffs and import regulations. Said a Japanese: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists . . . then they turn around and raise their duties on tuna and silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
...Bulgaria wanted vegetable oils; the U.S. has just imposed a stiff import quota on tung oil after spending thousands to teach the Paraguayans how to grow it for the U.S. market...
Like all other people, the British must cat. But their tight little island does not produce enough foot to supply them all, so they have to import the deficit. To import they must also export. They export, among other things, movies. A good Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier production is probably good for quite a few main dishes. But there is also the dessert--or "sweet"--to be considered, and perhaps even an after-dinner smoke, blended from Virginia tobacco. To make a life of austerity bearable such pictures as I Believe in You are made and exported...