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...have remained relatively obscure. Sometimes acting as middlemen for big deals, sometimes hunting up products and processes to sell on their own, these new Marco Polos have perhaps done more to expand the frontiers of East-West trade than the emissaries of giant corporations. Familiar with the workings of Sojuzchimexport, Stankoimport, and other mystifyingly complicated Soviet state enterprises, they have been putting together some of the most imaginative deals since William Henry Seward made Alaska a Russian export. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: The New Marco Polos | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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