Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER five months' haggling, Western nations slashed from 181 to 118 the number of strategic items which are embargoed to Communist countries. But for all the talk, it's the Communists who do most to hold down the trading. See FOREIGN NEWS, Cutting the List...
...businessmen studied the new autos with a keen eye, they also looked long at another economic factor to be reckoned with in the months to come: inflation. Everyone hears a lot about inflation; the talk is fraught with semantic difficulties because everyone has a different definition of the word, and thus a different assessment of the danger. For a sensible definition and an idea of how far away the U.S, is from real inflation, see BUSINESS, Inflation: Unlikely...
...shell. Somehow, perhaps even by finally getting around to reading the Record, it came to the attention of Republican Senators. When the G.O.P. congressional leaders went to the White House for a legislative meeting with the President, they asked the Army's Dwight Eisenhower what all the surrender talk was about...
...lack of goods that meet Western specifications. Though Britain's trade with Communist countries, for example, has more than doubled in the past seven years, it is still only 2.6% of total U.K. exports. In a more realistic vein, the London Times warned: "When the Communists talk about increasing trade, they are as often concerned with the political effect of their words as with any goods they may want to buy." Added a Ruhr industrialist: "The demand for Russian caviar is not unlimited in Germany, and it is not always easy to obtain other goods for which we might...
...talk more sense to the South on the subject of race relations than the South's own moderates. One of them, South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs, a 62-year-old scholar, essayist and Presbyterian elder, makes a forthright appeal to reason in this first book. Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors...