Word: imports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preachers of "integration" want abolished. The Germans sell their Ruhr coal to French steelmakers at a price up to 30% higher than the coal price for domestic German buyers. The French sell their Lorraine iron ore to German steelmakers at far higher prices than they charge at home. Tariffs, import quotas and government subsidies further protect the French steel industry from competition by lower-priced German steel, keep prices high, markets divided and output lower than it should...
...bankers and Government officials had ever felt reluctant about extending Argentina credit, that feeling had evaporated. At least six U.S. Government agencies-the Departments of State, Commerce and Treasury, EGA, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Export-Import Bank-had rated Argentina a good credit risk. The State Department hoped that this economic assistance might also help to make Argentina a better political risk. But that remained to be seen...
...from U-235) which might be used more profitably for making plutonium. When questioned about Bacher, Commissioner Henry DeWolf Smyth remarked significantly: "He is a fairly competent man in this field." This is as close as AEC ever comes to giving a straight opinion on a matter of military import...
...Export-import Bank yesterday announced approval of a $125,000,000 loan to a group of banks in Argentina...
Cyril Ritchard, an import from England, who plays Sparkish the fop, achieves a success of a different kind. Sparkish could turn out no more than a fop, an elaborately dressed, self-conscious waver of lace handkerchiefs, but Mr. Ritchard manages by his impressive diction and equally impressive frame to give real color to Wycherley's essentially colorless character. His Sparkish is an excellent example of how a really fine actor can make something out of almost nothing...