Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dragon," "Green Ivy" and "Onion" (blue & white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic loss ... to the sound, lively and folk-based realism of our time." Among the approved new themes: "work, sports and reconstruction." But Meissen may also continue to make an occasional fancy item for export purposes, such as the elaborate porcelain group entitled Victory of the People that it recently forwarded to the Kremlin...
...equipment) by Boston's Pacific Trading Corp. Pacific Trading's President Shao Ti Hsu calmly told O'Conor's Senate subcommittee that he bought the steel in Belgium and France, shipped it to China via New York. Did Hsu know that it is illegal to export silicon steel from the U.S. to Communist China? Yes, said Hsu, but the Commerce Department had told him that it was O.K. as long as the steel had not originated in the U.S. That, said Senator O'Conor, was "disgraceful...
...most remarkable deal of all involved 4,000,000 Ibs. of copper which went to Red China before the Korean war. It was bought in Japan for shipment to New York. Because of the New York destination, a Japanese export license was easily obtained. In transit, the copper was resold to agents of Red China. Since the shipment originated in Japan, the copper was exempt from U.S. export controls when it passed through New York. Said Jerome Kohlberg,* president of the Kane Import Corp. which bought & sold part of the copper: "We acted in accordance with all Government regulations...
Violation or Outrage? Senator O'Conor was not so sure. Said he: "This double shipment around the world has resulted in evasion, if not actual violation of the Japanese export laws."The shipment, O'Conor added, was made possible by "misrepresentation" and "spurious" bills of lading. To crusty, crafty Hans Isbrandtsen, whose shipping line had drawn up some of the questionable bills of lading, O'Conor's charges were an outrage. "A steamship line such as ours," said he, ". . . follows the shipper's directions . . . whenever those directions are within regulations...
...week's end Herbert O'Conor referred the entire matter to SCAP "for possible action on the part of Japanese authorities." And the Commerce Department hastily called a meeting of shippers and exporters in Manhattan, to plug the loopholes in its export regulations...