Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last active co-worker of Lenin, could only condemn. It was Old Bolshevik Mikoyan who rose in the secret Central Committee session to answer that the Yugoslavs could and must be drawn back into the Soviet orbit, and to go on to indict past Russian policy-including his own trade deals-for failing to recognize and adjust to nationalist tendencies in the satellites. Molotov never recovered from the trouncing that Khrushchev and Mikoyan gave him at that meeting...
...Asian." The last of the old Stalin gang to surrender his Kremlin apartment (he moved out grumblingly in 1955), Trader Mikoyan no longer goes daily to any of his Moscow offices. Though trade is so basic in his background that it is primarily still his responsibility, he has graduated from the management of domestic enterprise to become Khrushchev's senior adviser and fixer. "He has no strong beliefs," says one longtime British observer. "He operates against a background of Marxism the way a Western politician operates against the background of Christianity." Mikoyan once said to a friend...
...living standards of Western Europe are three times as high as ours and America's three times as high as Europe's. We cannot reach that of America, but we could reach that of Western Europe-if we could reduce armaments and engage in big foreign trade." Communists may ransack the pages of Pravda in vain to find a Mikoyan speech endorsing Khrushchev's economic claims. On this aspect of Khrushchev's policy, says Bialer, Mikoyan is "waiting his time...
Ruiz Cortines did not pretend that the picture was uniformly bright. From September 1956 to June 1957 the country piled up an unfavorable trade balance of $55.8 million, although, said the President, 82% of it was the result of temporary expenditures (spare machine parts, industrial equipment) necessary for economic expansion. Even excluding Indian communities, 300,000 children have no schools and one out of every two Mexicans is still illiterate. The population of the Federal District, now 4.5 million, will probably hit 7,000,000 by 1966, causing serious food, water and school shortages. And because of drought and population...
...investors, Canada still looked alluring, and "immigrant capital" helped drive the Canadian dollar in August to an alltime high of $1.0611 in terms of the U.S. dollar (it eased to $1.0498 last week). With their premium dollar Canadians bought more goods abroad than ever before, thus aggravating their chronic trade deficit...