Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voyage. In Liverpool, England, determined Traveler George Smith belatedly learned about British export laws, auctioned off at the pier his car and a greyhound, then learned that he could not take his earnings out, gave away his auction money...
...moral, if any, seemed to be that grousing was one British product not intended for the export trade...
...favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...
...bushel, cash wheat was 24? below its high mark of last November. What had brought on the break? Government buying had slackened; the Government had almost all it needed for export under present goals. The winter wheat crop looked good, as deep snows had given it both protection and adequate moisture. And livestock feeders had begun to balk at paying $3 and up for corn, so more grain was going to market and less into hogs & cattle...
...restaurant in London's Olympia exhibition hall last week, British government officials sat down to a meal of "Frood," a new British product hailed as a likely dollar-getter in the export trade. But Frood turned out to be nothing more than precooked frozen food. With the U.S. frozen-food market already oversold, it looked as if Britons could not have picked a worse time to try to invade it. The only thing to give U.S. businessmen pause was that Frood's maker, J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., was not likely to back a bad bet. By consistently backing...