Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought we knew a few things about trade-union corruption," he said, "but we didn't know the half of it, one-tenth of it, or the one-hundredth part of it. We didn't know, for instance, that we had unions where a criminal record was almost a prerequisite to holding office under the national union. We didn't know that we had top trade-union leaders who made it a practice to secretly borrow the funds of their union...
...didn't know that there were top trade-union leaders who used the funds for phony real estate deals in which the victims of the fraud were their own members. And we didn't know that there were trade-union leaders who charged to the union treasury such items as speedboats, perfume, silk stockings, brassières, color TV, refrigerators, and everything else under...
...increases for its own employees in the ministries and nationalized industries, hoped thereby to set an example for private industry. Further wage hikes, warned Thorneycroft, "would be a disaster to this country." Snapped the Labor Party's economic spokesman, Harold Wilson: "A straight declaration of war" against the trade unions...
...transit through the Gulf of Aqaba, Israelis now recognized that the U.S.'s quiet insistence that the gulf was an international waterway until proved otherwise had achieved the same result and stirred far less Arab rancor. Israel had its port, was taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres of malarial swamp that lie partly in the neutral zone along the Syrian...
...potent drug, chlorothiazide (trade-named Diuril by manufacturers Merck Sharp & Dohme, though not yet released for general prescription use), taken by mouth, can be highly effective as a diuretic, stimulating the body to get rid of excess water, which causes edema (dropsy) in patients with enlarged and failing hearts. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh and Dr. Felix E. Demartini reported that chlorothiazide works well by itself, also increases the effectiveness of other diuretics when given in small-dose combinations. In three cases where no drug worked alone, a combination did the trick. The A.H.A...