Word: swap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GREECE was getting ready to swap tobacco for Polish coal; ITALY could not resist Bulgaria's bid for lemons. JAPAN industrialists, noting that U.S. coal and iron ore costs them more than twice as much as the nearer but unavailable supplies ofo the Red mainland, bluntly say: "There is no hope for the Japanese economy until trade can be resumed with China...
Santa Fe's adults liked the show, too, and plans were made to send the show to Los Alamos and Denver next. Back in their classrooms, Supervisor Anderson's pupils were hard at work on more pictures to swap with faraway children-in North Carolina, India and the Philippines...
...parts. Auto-Lite was also in bad repute because of a bitter strike in which trigger-happy Ohio national guardsmen shot and killed two strikers and wounded five others. Martin was able to talk Auto-Lite's founder, the late Clem Mininger, into a 2½-for-one swap of Moto Meter's stock for Auto-Lite's, and soon after Martin became president. In 18 years he has boosted Auto-Lite's sales from $14 million to $271 million, and profits from $1.2 million to 1952's net of $9.8 million...
Last week, as they do each month, members of the society met to read learned papers, look at each other's new acquisitions, and maybe swap a few soldiers. Since 1931, the society's total membership (resident and nonresident) has grown to more than 400. Among the nonresidents; Selden Chapin. U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands. Recently the society admitted ten Germans for the first time since the war. Conceded a French member: "They know a lot about uniforms and soldiers...
After eight months of deliberation, CAB last week approved a deal which will make Delta Air Lines the sixth biggest (in route mileage) in the U.S. Subject to stockholders' approval, Delta will swap $10 million in new, convertible debentures for all the outstanding common stock in Chicago & Southern. The merged company, to be known as Delta-Chicago & Southern, will have 6,474 miles of routes through the South and Midwest, plus another 3,034 (now owned by C. & S.) to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Venezuela...