Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most U.S. manufacturers could afford to export on a C.I.F. (cash-in-fist) basis. But today the manufacturer who wants export business does give credit terms abroad. One thing would aid U.S. manufacturers in export selling-having our Government backing them up on extended credit terms abroad, as do West Germany and the United Kingdom for their manufacturers...
...nation's 45 million families, the breakthrough will represent some $11,000 worth of goods and services produced by U.S. factories, farms, mines, government and service industries. The total will be many billions greater than the combined gross national products of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, West Germany and France...
...steel strike has forced layoffs of 50,000 railroadmen (carloadings ran 16% below normal) and 28,000 other workers -miners from West Virginia to Minnesota, sailors and longshoremen on the Great Lakes, teamsters throughout the East and Middle West. The Government is also a victim: a prolonged strike in steel is expected to cause revenue losses of $45 million a week. Said Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson: "A long strike could reduce revenues which could not be recovered in fiscal 1960 and could therefore contribute to a budget deficit...
...Good. The result is that the Red Chinese trade offensive has lost its wind both in the West and in Southeast Asia. In the first five months of 1959, the Red Chinese funneled $60 million worth of goods through Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, v. $80 million last year, and exports through Singapore fell 73%. The Canton fair held this spring rang up $79 million worth of trade; last year the total was $180 million...
...both poor and common, and Temple champions a kind of cultural revolt of the masses, with its rejection of all that is feudal and aristocratic. There is a lot of Zen beatnik in Mishima's hero, and at his worst he is a glorification of the East-West culture bum who has neither the courage nor the talent to remake the world he hates...