Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries since 1955. Nehru sprang gallantly forward to retrieve Begum Noon's golden slipper when it fell as she stepped out of the plane. He escorted them to the high-domed Presidential House, and the talks began. The two leaders quickly worked out an agreement to trade several small enclaves along the disputed East Pakistan border "with a view to relieving tension...
Congressional Leadership. Far from knuckling under to Democratic congressional leaders, President Eisenhower demanded, fought for and won important legislation-notably on foreign aid, education, reciprocal trade and defense reorganization-from the 88th Congress...
Beneath the bright white lights of Bournemouth's Pavilion-more commonly switched on for comedians and jugglers entertaining the seaside resort trade-Britain's trade-union movement showed its age last week. World War II and service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily...
...Yates tacitly endorsed Foulkes's position, quickly passed on to less controversial issues. But the incident left a bad taste in many a British mouth. Suggesting that the T.U.C. pass a rule banning Reds from office in its affiliated unions, the liberal Manchester Guardian asked: "Why should democratic trade unionists be expected to put up with Communists as a matter of political course...
...labor force, 1,000,000 homeless, a 10% slump in industrial production, an external debt of $718 million. Defeated Socialist Allende missed not a drumbeat. He promised welfare statism for all and an escape from "foreign capitalistic imperialism" into the never-never land of steak and wine that trade behind the Iron Curtain would bring...