Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...washed dishes, fired boilers, even played on a skittles team organized by the owner of a local pub. As husband to the Queen, he has literally brought the world to his wife's door, and opened that door wide on the world itself. Artists, writers, businessmen and even trade unionists who would have been shown the back door in Queen Victoria's day now lunch regularly at Buckingham Palace...
...made without pomposity or apology, the rolling periods, all inevitably evoked memories of Conservatism's greatest living orator, Winston Churchill. Cheers grew even louder when Hailsham hauled round and delivered a slashing attack on Labor's unionists' "spending spree" "demands without programs and restraint" as trade the greatest threats in the fight against inflation, thundered: "I believe they would drive the qualified, the young and the vigorous to migrate, and leave the aged at home deprived of their savings by a depreciated currency to meditate at leisure upon the loss of British freedom and greatness...
...professorship has been set up in the Department of Economics. The chair will be used by a Harvard economist to devote his full time to research and teaching in international trade...
...FAIR TRADE is out in New Mexico, 13th state to rule that manufacturer cannot dictate minimum retail prices. State Supreme Court threw out clause that says if one store signs a fixed-price pact all stores must uphold it. Exempted: fair-traded tobacco products and liquor...
...Ludwig, a long, lean, lone-wolf operator who speaks softly and seldom, sailed to his riches through heavy seas. Born in South Haven, Mich., he started as a marine engine mechanic in his teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers...