Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining Indian rajahs to part with their private collections. On this last obstacle Dr. Prakash commented: "The rajah will part first with his palace, second with his Ford and only at the extreme with his art collection." To make this eventual parting easier, the Indian government has forbidden export of art for selling purposes, has increased hereditary death-duties and, in the future, hopes to use a further Western trick in allowing tax deductions for the value of art objects given to India's public museums. All of this should work wonders for India's already fine multipurpose museums...
Since the 1953 agreements between the U.S. and Spain were established, the economic aid "pumped" into Spain has amounted to $928,361,000, not $2 billion. These include defense support, PL 480 sales, Export-Import Bank and DLF loans...
Impressed by the wheat campaign, the Grain Sorghum Producers Association of Amarillo decided to spend $30,000 in the next two years to encourage European feed mills and farmers to buy more U.S. coarse grains. The U.S. Rice Export Association of New Orleans invested $35,000 in a market analysis, learned that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer...
...Never since Queen Victoria came to the throne more than a century ago," whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...
Britain sent 10½% of all its exports to the U.S. in the first five months of this year, 37% above last year. The biggest British export to the U.S. is autos, which account for 25%. Other exports range from tractors (doubled in the first quarter) through textile machinery (nearly doubled) to plastics (trebled). The U.S. is now Britain's biggest market for sewing machines...