Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical researchers reported last week that they have found a sort of untran-quilizer-a drug that shows promise in treating mental patients suffering from depression. It is no new chemical, but iproniazid (trade name: Marsilid), first cousin of isoniazid and a veteran of the 1951 campaign against tuberculosis. When it was given to TB patients at New York City's Sea View Hospital, they became happy, ate ravenously, gained weight and started dancing in the wards (TIME, March 3, 1952). Iproniazid was soon retired from widespread use because it produced undesirable side effects, such as dizziness, constipation, difficulty...
WASHINGTON, April 10--President Eisenhower gave a sympathetic boost today to allies who want to relax curbs on trade with Red China--especially the Japanese...
Britain and Japan, both in economic straits and hungry for trade, have been casting an eye at the Red China market. The United States' policy, banning all American trade with Red China and keeping pressure on its allies to withhold from Red China any goods which could be used for war, remains unchanged...
...Japanese magazines and newspapers Tsuru has criticized American H-bomb testing in the Pacific, restrictions on Japanese trade with Red China, and "America's over-eagerness to expedite Japan's rearmament." He noted that his criticism had been directed toward specific policies, and expressed admiration for the American people and culture...
Twenty years or so ago, Bronx-born Leonard Warren (né Warrenoff) was busy selling fur jackets and studying advertising at Columbia, and Brooklyn-born Richard (originally Reuben) Tucker was selling dyed silk linings to the wholesale fur trade. Baritone Warren turned to singing (he won the 1938 Metropolitan Auditions of the Air) when the Depression shrank the fur business; Tenor Tucker turned to singing when the outbreak of World War II shrank the silk supply. Both advanced quickly in the war-hobbled Metropolitan, both quickly became reliable, stock-in-trade singers. In recent years they have blossomed into spectacular...