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...spur exports, 37 major heavy-industry companies formed the Japan Technical Cooperation Co., dispatched technical experts to India and Indonesia to explore markets for power and oil equipment, signed technical cooperation contracts with Viet Nam and the Burmese Defense Department. Some industrial exporters, however, feel that if nationalist-minded Southeast Asian countries restrict Japanese trade, or if Western European and Soviet competition gets too tough, Japan would turn to Red China to keep its exports rolling. Already Japanese businessmen are clamoring to exchange ships, trucks, bulldozers, locomotives, generators and other machinery with Red China for iron ore and coal...
Peterborough--or Peterboro if you live there--has a population of 1,506. Located on a spur line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, it is the site of the famous 600-acre arts center in honor of composer Edward MacDowell...
Kempton's scurrilous remarks spur me on to campaign even harder for Vice President Nixon's re-election this fall...
...Sunday Drivers. The expanded newspaper coverage is largely an unintended product of TV, which acts as a spur to competition. Because it whets reader interest in the conventions, TV is also serving in effect as a commercial for the printed word. Said Carroll Linkins, who has been one of Western Union's press shepherds at the national conventions since 1936: "If you see an event on TV, you want to read an expert to see if he saw what...
...declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope of one day being able to purchase and enjoy luxuries a great spur to labor and industry...