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...large proportion of applicants typically express an interest in the over-popular fields of journalism, publishing, personnel work, advertising, and the "export-import business." This aggravates the placement problem, for the majority of job offerings tend more toward scientific pursuits. Insurance and merchandising also offer many good opportunities...
...stood before a cheering joint session of Congress and suggested (in Spanish) that "the policy of the Good Neighbor" should be implemented with "an economy of the Good Neighbor." In short, Mexico needed money. Alemán got some. He and President Truman announced together that the U.S. Export" Import Bank had agreed to lend Mexico an unspecified amount. Washingtonians figured that Mexico would do well to get one-third of the $175 million she had asked for. But that would be enough to give President Alemán a good start on his ambitious new public-power, irrigation...
...Anibal makes the mahogany concession worth $400,000 a year. But the slickest parlay is in cattle. The biggest cattle raiser in the Republic, the Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican markets. Dominican soldiers load the ships for Trujillo. They also milk the cows on his model 200,000-acre ranch, La Fundacion...
...free port without paying duties and without posting bonds; they can store their merchandise, sort it and repack it for export. Only if & when the goods enter the country proper are they dutiable. The day New Orleans' free port opened, it got its first customer-a Chicago liquor importer who planned to keep his liquor there in kegs, import it in bottles as needed...
America's principal economic obligation will be to increase its import trade when other nations are prepared to send us goods. We cannot gain permanent friends by continuing to lend money, the University Professor said...