Word: exporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth, his father was a teacher of Romance languages at Massachusetts' Amherst College. But he soon quit as a result of a quarrel with the college president, moved his family to New York, where he studied law at night, scraping a living by translating documents for export-import firms. A few years later, the family moved to Baltimore, where the elder Symington practiced law, winding up as a county judge...
Risk of Trouble. Poland is in further trouble in its foreign trade. Although sales of coal, the nation's biggest export, have slumped sharply, Poland's imports are soaring. The balance of payments deficit-$142 million last year-rose to $120 million in the first six months of 1959 alone...
Hanfmann was not going to prepare a "treasure hunt," however. "Due to rising nationlism, almost all the young Near Eastern countries rich in as yet unexplored cultural objects do not allow foreign excavators to export their resources. The days of booty grabbing are over. We have returned to Sardis to find new areas for the building of history. It has been undertaken in the interests of scholarship alone...
...public field, 15% of all the loans ever made by the U.S. Export-Import...
...full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes 5% of France's export production, will find prices down although the quality will...