The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 7, 16 February 1967Britain Shares in Vietnam Profits
The Week Vol. 7, No. 7, 16 February 1967 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 100 words
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from an economic correspondent The current issue of The Statist discloses that British exports have benefited from the war in Vietnam, rising from £1,2 million in 1962 to more than £4 million in 1966, US construction consortia are buying some £25 million of goods for Vietnam in Singapore, most of it British. The £4 million direct sales include machinery, motor vehicles and whisky. Vietnam's fantastic inflation has also profited the Royal Mint, which supplies its coinage, and De La Rue and Bradbury Wilkinson, who print its currency notes. "Peace," says The Statist, "could well be bad for inflation,"
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