Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because few Congressmen were hardy enough to challenge the Eisenhower last word on national security. Also many a Democrat was suddenly made aware that he might have to answer to constituents in 1958 for cutting the kind of domestic programs that had long been the principal Democratic stock in trade...
...FREE TRADE PLAN of President Eisenhower for U.S. to join Organization for Trade Cooperation stands no chance of passage this year. Support is dwindling in Congress, and President would have to wage tremendous battle to push bill through, gives no indication he intends...
...Liquor trade journals hailed Distillers Corp.-Seagrams as a trail blazer for its ads claiming that "Clear Heads Call for Calvert Taste." Its Calvert subsidiary ran the ads despite the Government's disapproval-based on the ad's implicit promise of freedom from hangover. But it later changed the wording to "Clear Heads Agree: Calvert Tastes Better" after a threat of formal charges. While Seagrams nervously denies that it is trying to make a test case for the industry, Vice President
Earlier, Raymond A. Bauer, M.I.T. social psychologist, was appointed Ford Foundation Visiting Professor for 1957-59. An authority on Soviet psychology, he had also been studying business attitudes toward foreign trade...
...while the total work force has rapidly increased. Unions are also at fault. Some, still thinking in Depression terms, limit the number of apprentices they will accept for training. More important, the emphasis of industrial unions on raising the pay of the unskilled has discouraged workers from learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled dropped from 80% in 1932 to about 40% in 1957. During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial arts supervisor...