Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as Renault made the decision to cancel its Israeli contract, the Arab League struck its name off the blacklist, and the company was free to go ahead with a reported deal to sell Nasser 4,000 cars...
...cancel out any labor-bill ban on secondary boycotts, Hoffa is already setting timetables to rearrange Teamster contracts so that they will all expire at the same time. He plans to try to work out arrangements with other unions so that their contracts will run out at the same time as Teamster contracts. "This bill is going to bring on national bargaining," Hoffa predicted. "That's where those smart guys in Congress outsmarted themselves...
...just-beginning companies-Geophysics Corp., Nuclear Development Corp., etc.-that explore everything from spaceship design to missile defenses. He is also moving into a new investment area that combines his lifelong interests in travel, conservation, development of backward areas. In the Virgin Islands. Rockefeller set up the 600-acre Cancel Bay Plantation resort, donated another 5,000-acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose...
...were obviously going to be worse. A campaign had already begun, supported by newspapers and prominent public figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would not get far with it, and was in no mood...
...taking goods in return, the Chinese are far more efficient. As a shipment of 4,500 tons of South American cotton arrived at a Chinese port recently, U.S.-trained Chinese inspectors swarmed over it, carefully grading each" bale. The Chinese are tough and unbending in trade negotiations, often cancel contracts for no obvious reason. Said a Frenchman who packed his bags and returned home from Red China without a franc's worth of trade: "The atmosphere is decidedly bad for doing business...