Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have really succeeded in making American democracy an article of export...
...asked Wrong to delay his visit for one day, and submitted informally a surprising new set of U.S. terms. The request for a blank check for military aid was dropped. The demand for cash in advance was changed; Canada could use letters of credit. The third stipulation-that Canada export no U.S.-made arms without permission-was watered down, giving Washington control only of equipment containing more than half U.S. parts...
...buyers may export the foodstuffs to any country they like, provided no ECA funds are used in payment. Because of high shipping costs, CCC was not at all sure that much would be exported even at the low prices...
...swallowed up by growing cities, new roads and airfields. Farmers lucky enough to find land are often caught without a market. One of them, 49-year-old Truck Farmer Simon Eygenraam, summed up their problem: "Look, we Dutchmen together produce much more than the home market needs, and we export, mostly to Britain and Germany. But we're hampered by trade restrictions and quotas . . . I cannot get foreign currency, therefore I cannot buy the freezer units I would like to have. I cannot get more land for my sons . . . That's no kind of future to offer...
...year's end the big question was still: How could the world compete with the U.S.? The solution was not a permanent form of EGA to pay for U.S. goods given away but to teach the world how to compete through the export of U.S. capital and industrial know-how. Such a program, harassed by all manner of restrictions and threats of expropriation abroad, would not work until other nations gave U.S. businessmen and capital the same freedom they had at home. In short, the economic solution was the same as the political solution: the world needed more freedom...