Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admitted that Sherman Adams had arranged an appointment for him to talk over his woolen-mill difficulties with the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, but denied that Adams had exercised any influence "with these giant federal agencies where a little man gets lost without some kind of guidance from a friend...
...Free." It was Lawyer Robb who laid down the major strategic lines: 1) make Goldfine appear as a simple, innocent, underdog type being persecuted by a powerful congressional subcommittee, and 2) permit Goldfine to answer only those questions that related, directly and demonstrably, to his relationships with the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sherman Adams. On paper, the plans looked good - at least to their authors. In practice, they exploded in some wildly improbable directions...
...Sent to Congress a bill of particulars on how he proposes to trade atomic military science with Britain under the relaxed secrecy act just passed by Congress. "Artificial barriers to sharing," he wrote, are "wasteful in the extreme...
...Italy's postwar middle-of-the-road pattern. To his only ally in the coalition government, Giuseppe Saragat's anti-Communist Socialists, Fanfani gave four crucial posts in social experiment-the Ministries of Finance, Labor, State Participation and Communications. For the first time since the war, a trade unionist was included in the Cabinet: Giulio Pastore, the head of the anti-Communist labor federation, CISL, became Minister for Economic Development of Southern Italy and Depressed Areas. Fanfani dropped Giuseppe Pella, a leader of the Christian Democrats' right wing, as Foreign Minister and took the post himself...
...exhibitors who run the nation's movie theaters judge a picture strictly by the money it makes. Weighing one against another, they form sharp opinions, make them known to other "exhibs" -and to respectful cinemoguls-through brief critiques in the trade weekly Boxoffice. Examples of the cinema's most practical criticism...