Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...same time, brokers in a dozen U.S. cities had been importing up to 5,000,000 bushels of potatoes from the spud-rich Canadian farmlands in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The Canadian growers were gleefully doing their biggest export business in years. Even after U.S. Customs collected 37½? duty on every 100-lb. sack for the first million bushels of table potatoes and the first 2.5 million of seed potatoes and twice as much duty on all subsequent potatoes, the Canadian spuds were cheaper than the homegrown subsidized ones...
...roads were blocked by snow. For nearly two days, Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the country. Buildings, including a stove factory in Jerusalem, collapsed under the heavy load of snow on the roofs. Israel's entire citrus fruit crop (the country's No. 1 export), the tomato crop and half of the estimated banana crop were destroyed...
...cloud-hung Gulf Coast bristles with a staggering concentration of chemical plants-enormous, surrealistic jungles of piping, gleaming spheroids of tanks and stacks-and with miles of great oil refineries, tank farms and factories. The combined Gulf ports handle more export tonnage than New York. Texas produces 80% of U.S. sulphur, almost half of its natural gas, and a lion's share of that Texas delicacy, chili powder. Texans make B-36 bombers in the Consolidated Vultee
...would have to drop its notion that the American concept of "service as the path to profit" is "either sheer folly or gross hypocrisy." The world's backward areas needed a good deal more than American know-how and vague talk about Point 4. The U.S. had to export the American concept of business...
...from continental businessmen who have resented ECA's constant pressure for freer trade and from Britons who have persistently ignored the requirements of the U.S. market. They complained that Americans were not permitting free competition in the U.S. by Europeans. Sir Cecil Weir, chairman of the British Dollar Export Board, even hustled over to ECA's Washington office to protest that Seattle had discriminated against Ferranti...