Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ominous Word. Why all this airing of trouble and simulated display of tolerance? Even in the bowdlerized official version of Mao's major "secret" speech, the ominously evocative word "Hungary" cropped up with a frequency which suggested it was much on the chairman's mind. Indicative of Mao's fears was his none-too-veiled reference to popular resistance to Chinese rule in Tibet: "Because conditions in Tibet are not ripe, democratic reforms have not yet been carried out there...
...SUPERMARKET will be shown in Communist country for first time at Yugoslavia's Zagreb trade fair Sept. 7 to 22. U.S. food companies and store-equipment manufacturers will set up a 10,000-sq.-ft. store including display cases, frozen-food refrigerators and 4,000 different items with prices attached. Group will donate food to local charities, expects to sell store's equipment to Yugoslavia when the show closes...
...countries. The 3,000 U.S. companies that contributed their goods also signed up millions of dollars in sales. Over the last fortnight, at Poland's Poznan Fair, the first U.S. trade exhibit behind the Iron Curtain pulled in 900,000 Poles, far more than the Russian display (TIME, June 24). Spurred by this dramatic propaganda success, President Eisenhower last week requested $2,200,000 for the U.S. to enter next summer's international fair at Gorky Park, Moscow, the first such U.S. display in Russia...
Pinched for cash, the world's richest nation has often come off second best. At last year's fair in Bogota, Colombia, the U.S. spent less than $500,000 (v. $1,500,000 for the joint Czech-East German pavilion), had to resort to an unimpressive display of photographs to picture the abundant U.S. in action. But fair planners in the Department of Commerce have learned to stretch their dollars by leaning heavily on private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets...
Some businessmen question whether it is good showmanship to display such things as a gadget-packed, full-scale U.S. house or a supermarket to impoverished people who can barely understand what they are, let alone buy them. But most businessmen believe that people over the world want to see the best and latest U.S. products, even though it is often a problem to make clear that the wonders are enjoyed by the average American...