Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Flight from Fact. The problem [of Britain's dollar export drive] is so crucial . . . that the Treasury is leaving no stone unturned, not even that of encouraging private enterprise. Even if this be regarded as a change in planning technique, rather than a true retreat from planning, it means a greener light and a rosier prospect for the British businessman than he has had since before...
...ninth child of a father who made a fortune in the import-export business in South America, then returned to his pink villa in the little town of Cadegliano overlooking Lake Lugano to settle down to the quiet life. Gian-Carlo's mother, a dynamic woman who took up painting at 60, the guitar at 62, was the main influence in his life. An artistic woman herself, she sought out talent among all of her children, especially lavished her attention on little Gian-Carlo, who seemed to have the most...
...full six hours before the American Export Lines' Exilona made port, Italian divers were busy beneath the waters of Naples harbor looking for mines. Just over their heads navy patrol boats bumbled to & fro; above them, planes of the Italian air force watchfully circled the sky. On the shore, soldiers in tanks and jeeps patrolled the approaches to the waterfront, and Neapolitan police guarded a dock entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
Disgusted, Bill Pawley turned to dollar-hungry Britain. The British Export Credits Guarantee Department said it would establish a $7,700,000 credit, enabling Pawley's Autobuses Modernos to buy 620 all-steel, 41-passenger buses from England's Leyland Motors, Ltd. The government guarantee would cover 85% of the buses' cost; Pawley would pay 10% when the deal was closed, the balance over a three-year period...
Besides three well-worn dollar bills-which were not enough to pay for the axes-Ivan Christian had also enclosed some hand-painted souvenir leaves from the island. Because "the letter kind of appealed" to him, Plumb's Export Manager George R. Beck shipped the axes and thus opened a new account for the company's $250,000 annual export business. Christian soon ordered more axes and hammers for Pitcairn Islanders, paid for them by sending handmade baskets which Plumb's Cashier Elsie Hoffman obligingly sold to friends. After the island got some $75 worth of Plumb...