Word: imports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million of interest due this month on past U.S. loans. There was every indication that Congress will, after some protest, grant the request. The U.S. was ready to provide the International Monetary Fund with approximately $500 million in cash. There is also talk in Washington that the U.S. Export-Import Bank might be ready to advance perhaps $200 million in loans to finance purchases of Western Hemisphere...
...slid off calamitously since they tasted freedom. Unless they spent more time in the pits and less at meetings, and unless they began obeying mine bosses' orders again, said Gomulka, Poland would not have enough coal to send abroad for the food and raw materials it must import to live on. There is "no possibility" of general wage raises in 1957, said he, without a simultaneous increase in production. But Gomulka had a special concession for the miners: since they were underpaid, their "basic wages should be appropriately raised." This did not stop absenteeism. Two days later...
...past few years the Cuban sugar surplus has dropped from 2,000,000 to less than 1,000,000 tons, and production has gone down in many sugar-producing countries. In a move to check the price rise, the Department of Agriculture last week increased the 1956 import quota for the eighth time this year...
...from coal to soap (see FOREIGN NEWS). Britain, which announced that official gas rationing will start in two weeks, is little better off. Estimates are that oil reserves will last through January. Then Britain will have to reduce consumption 25% or more, depending on how much oil it can import from...
...TJ.S. CATTLE SALE is being negotiated with Mexican buyers to give cash relief to drought-hit U.S. ranchers. Mexico got $5,000,000 loan from U.S. Export-Import Bank to buy about 40,000 beef and dairy cattle. Two buying teams from south of border are touring Texas...