Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Magic Show. Western businessmen who looked at Eastern Germany's exhibits-giant cranes, rakish little automobiles (see cut), shiny new Contax cameras-were disappointed when they went to the fair's export offices to put in orders. "Sorry," they were told, "we're only exporting that line to the east." "You know why they encouraged us to come here," said one embittered American buyer. "Because it helps their propaganda along." He pointed to a sign that proclaimed: "Leipzig Fair-Symbol of German Unity...
...offered Pawley the concession if he would pay $1,500,000 to the near-bankrupt trolley company's bondholders and get buses rolling in place of the sway-backed trams. But when Pawley went home to line up financial backing, no fewer than eleven U.S. banks, including the Export-Import Bank, turned down the deal...
...Named for the Roman House of Rondanini, which owned the statue for generations. *In 1937, Mussolini's officials had scotched the U.S. sale for another Michelangelo Pieta by put-ing a $2,500,000 export price tag on it; later an Italian bought it for about $250,000, presented it to the state...
Alsdorf quit the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce as a sophomore in 1933, took a selling job with his father's A. J. Alsdorf Corp., one of Chicago's oldest export businesses. Among their exports was the vacuum coffeemaker made by Cory Corp., then a small company run by Founder Harvey Cory. Young Alsdorf did so well selling the coffeemaker in coffee-drenched Brazil that he began to think of what he could do with proper salesmanship in the U.S. In 1942, when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends...
...Export Sales Manager Ferranti Ltd., England New York City