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...Establishment of a $100 million authority in the Export-Import Bank to underwrite, for a fee, the transfer risks on new foreign securities. This would insure U.S. investors against the rise & fall of currency values...
...reason for the shortage of one of the world's most common elements is that sulphur has been so easy to get in the past that nobody really bothered hustling for it. As late as World War I, the U.S. had to import more than one-third of its supply. But since the early '30s, the U.S. has provided an increasing stream of pure sulphur, or "brimstone," from the rich salt domes of the Gulf coast...
Frank Mordecai, 29, of Raleigh, N.C., and Richard Pfeiffer, 25, of Los Angeles, both city boys, both ex-G.I.s, met in 1948 in Phoenix, Ariz., where they were students at the American Institute of Foreign Trade. Most of the other students planned to go into export-import trade, but Frank and Dick thought they might do better by producing some commodity. On a trip to Central America, they studied the possibilities of lumber in Honduras and cattle in El Salvador, finally decided on cotton in Nicaragua...
Some simple and quietly careful acting and a great deal of perceptive photography combine to make the Copley's latest English import a good movie. An improbable and often mawkish story keeps it far from being a great...
...Blue Lamp (Ealing Studios; Eagle Lion Classics), a touted import, is a bland, semi-documentary melodrama in praise of the London police. The picture's excitement runs thin compared with the better Hollywood cops & robbers product, and its humor is as heavy as plum pudding, but U.S. moviegoers may be diverted by its foreign flavor...