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Shortages have grown worse. Chrome-mining firms cannot even get enough foreign exchange to buy dynamite; textile mills have closed because they cannot get funds to import wool tops and dyes. The sinking state of Turkey's credit has scared off foreign enterprisers who might otherwise have taken advantage of Menderes' generous terms for new oil and other foreign investors...
...Brazil, in exchange for coffee, cotton, cacao and wool sent to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, got only 42% of the machinery and other goods promised by the Reds, wound up 1954 holding a bagful of credits...
...Uruguay shipped $19 million worth of meat and wool to the Soviet Union in 1954, but the oil, coal, steel and machinery agreed upon by Russian negotiators never showed up. In fact, no Soviet goods at all arrived in Uruguay except $22,600 worth of Pharmaceuticals. At year's end the Russians settled up-but in sterling, which Uruguay could have earned for itself in the first place...
...rides, he gets a thorough physical examination, including electrocardiogram and X rays. Then, well before blastoff, he begins his preparations for the run. The Fiberglas shell of his helmet is lowered over his head and its cloth neck-shirt zipped shut. Then he wriggles into a blue wool flight suit, puts on thin leather flying gloves and climbs into his seat...
...discovery of the yarn was a fluke. During World War II Switzerland's Heberlein and Co., and France's Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft...