Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worked at a rate of more than $27 million a minute during a five-hour session to appropriate funds for 20 independent agencies, e.g., Veterans Administration, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission. Approved also was a $2.8 billion appropriation for the Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare Departments that ran counter to economy. The bill provided $96 million less than President Eisenhower asked, $38 million more than the House approved, and contained an additional $32 million for medical research that was tacked on by Alabama's Lister Hill...
...signs are visible everywhere. British-not U.S.-cars choke Piccadilly, British weekers jam vacation resorts at Blackpool and Brighton. Simpson's in the Strand is serving its famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national...
...speakers were just two of the 50,000 Poles who each day last week filed in from all over the nation to look in wonder at the U.S. exhibit in Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair...
...most of the 1,798,000 people who live in Netherlands-size Oriente province and its capital, Santiago de Cuba. Santiago professional men shelter Castro's couriers in their homes, support the rebels by buying $5, $10 and $100 "bonds." Among workingmen, there is a brisk trade in $1 bonds. Businessmen arrange shipments of supplies to Castro. When the government reportedly purchased five rebel-tracking bloodhounds, Oriente resistance members scornfully loosed a pack of mongrels on the streets, each wearing a Castro arm band on a front...
Dialectic. In Moscow, the publication Soviet Trade, fretting that so few of Russia's young women these days can "prepare a lunch, dinner, supper at home, or even make tea properly," concluded darkly, "Inability to cook often brings young housewives many bitter disappointments...