Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November. In some areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week's end close to 300,000 workers outside the 500,000 in the steel industry nad been squeezed out of their jobs. Foreign competition was invading long-nurtured U.S. markets. The trade magazine Iron Age predicted that, even with settlement, the U.S. would still be feeling the steel shortages into next summer...
Falling Pillars. In all its flamboyant history, Tangier (pop. 180,000) had never been "just one more city," no matter what the nationality of its masters. It was here that Atlas stood, and Hercules formed his great pillars. Trade flourished under Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, Visigoth and Byzantine alike. The city was "the brightest jewel" in the crown of England's Charles II. It was coveted by the Portuguese, ruled by the Moors, shelled by the French, invaded by the Spanish-and fought over by just about everyone. When it was finally internationalized in 1923, it was the Mediterranean haven...
...behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out. Let moviemakers find sinister backdrops elsewhere...
More than half of the respondents said they would be willing to trade two afternoons a week for a two-hour extension on Friday night. Over 85 per cent preferred a two hour extension to the present system...
...blazing dubious slogans. Sample: "Friendship with the Soviet Union insures peace, protects freedom and provides a better life for all." For 185 teachers and 13,800 students, contrast with the vibrant past is painful. Leipzig is the largest East German University-and the saddest. It is an outright Communist trade school...