Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shipment of strategic goods to Poland, upped exports so that more dollars worth of goods have already been delivered so far this year than were shipped all of last year. The Poles have increased exports to the U.S., e.g., canned hams, Christmas ornaments, have leveled the ratio of their trade to the East and West from 70-30 a year...
...Trade is only one element in this U.S. strategy of "enlightened liberation." While exchange teams come to the U.S. to study highways, farming, home building and steel production, U.S. experts tour Poland to inspect and suggest. Ten times as many U.S. citizens are visiting Poland this year as went last year. American movies are being shown again for the first time since the Communists took control of the country. Both the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations are arranging grants to provide exchange students. One of the most dramatic examples of the new policy at work was the success of the American...
NEXT SUMMER'S SWIMSUITS for women will feature startlingly low-cut backs (down to the waist) contrasted with demure, high necks to cover up in front. In first trade showings, California swimwear makers are avoiding the new Parisian tubular look (TIME, Sept. 9), instead will draw in waists with belts...
...chief pressures for revaluation do not come from inside West Germany, but from its European trade partners. They are worried because West Germany has lured so much investment capital away from the soft British pound and the French franc, captured many overseas customers that other European nations would like to have. Great Britain is in the forefront in demanding German revaluation. Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped $225 million in August. the biggest dip since the Suez crisis, and its deficit with the European payments union reached $178 million (compared with West Germany's fat surplus...
...this book, in which Eliot shows that he is like other men. too, in his predilection for shoptalk. In these pieces, which range in time from 1926 to the present and in subject matter from Virgil to Kipling, the poet-critic is talking shop about the poet's trade. But, Eliot being Eliot, there is also an underlying concern with the larger meaning...