Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such rages, tricks and cajolements, the cherub-cheeked minister has kept Germany on the path of free enterprise through five years of rising prosperity in an inflation-ridden world. The coalmen's price break threatened other rises from steel to bread; trade unions broke into a chorus of wage demands, topped by the 1,600,000-member Metal Workers Union's cry for a 10% boost...
...from the often marvelously demented first part of Adventures in the Skin Trade, Williams gets his best turn of the evening. Here a Welsh youth reaches London, makes friends in the railway-station restaurant, and goes to a furniture dealer's crammed house where "chairs stood on couches that lay on tables" and conversation went on while people bounced up and down on spring mattresses or were hidden behind columns of chairs. At length the young man found himself in a locked bathroom with a girl trying to lure him into the tub with her. Here an evening that...
DELALUTIN (E. R. Squibb & Sons' trade name for 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone) offers new hope for maintaining pregnancy in women with histories of repeated spontaneous abortions. Data dealt with 83 women who had had 353 earlier pregnancies, only 45 living babies; with the drug, they produced 56 live babies from only 83 pregnancies. Three Boston doctors reported 43 live babies from 59 pregnancies in diabetic women (including 41 severe cases). Delalutin must be injected...
NORLUTIN (Parke, Davis & Co.'s trade name for 19-nor-alpha-ethyniltestosterone) postpones menstruation "for as long as the physician may elect," reported gynecologists from the Medical College of Georgia. Such postponement is justified, they said, if a woman is made physically or emotionally ill by menstruation, and at specific times such as marriage, family crisis, sports competitions...
RECIPROCAL TRADE will be major congressional battleground next year when current laws expire. Protectionists are gaining strength in Congress; they will push hard to wipe out laws under which President Eisenhower can lower many tariffs whenever similar concessions are granted by foreign countries. White House has given notice that it will fight to have laws extended, though it may have to accept some changes...