Word: importing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competition from Celebrities. Imports of Australian beef have doubled in the past two years, and U.S. prices dropped 25% in 1963. More than 10% of the 97 Ibs. of beef eaten by the average American last year was imported, and most of it came from the sprawling ranges of Australia and New Zealand, which produce a chewy but inexpensive grade of meat. The new trade agreements will hold this year's imports to the 1962-63 level and permit small increases later-but this did not satisfy U.S. cattlemen. In Omaha, the National Livestock Feeders Association announced that...
Actress Prentiss is an offbeat comedienne who sometimes spoils her flibbertigibbet appeal by straining for laughs that just aren't there. Maria Perschy, a German import who resembles Romy Schneider, plays Paula's roommate, which gives her a chance to carry messages back and forth and practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over...
Prebisch is worried most by the growing "trade gap" between what is bought and sold by the poorer nations -in Latin America, Asia, Africa. From 1950 to 1960 their share of world trade declined from 30% to 20%, and their imports expanded much faster than their exports. On top of that, a world commodity glut held down prices of their exports-mostly food, fuel and fibers-while prices rose for the increasingly complex machines that they import. Because of the switch to synthetic goods and new efficiencies in manufacturing, the industrial nations are buying relatively less natural rubber, textiles...
...month tourist auto permit had expired a few days ago. And that meant Anna Moffo's air-conditioned Lincoln Continental, with built-in bar, had to be impounded by Italian customs. She can get it back any time-by paying a $5,000 fine, a $5,000 import duty and a $10,000 redemption fee. But since the car cost only $9,800 new, the American operatic soprano is having none of it. "I'm planning not to pay one lira of that fine," she told reporters. "I've got lawyers working...
Distressed Dialect. To the rescue came "The Birdman of The Hague," Zoologist Johann D. F. Hardenberg of the Ministry of Agriculture's fauna department. Called in by the Air Force and Amsterdam's airport, Hardenberg's first move was to import an American invention, a loudspeaker playing the tape-recorded distress calls of American herring gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep...