Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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QBVIOUSLY a sure-fire collection of self-help topics," said Publishers' Weekly in announcing the new book to the trade. The book: a new edition of Ovid's The Art of Love, including The Remedies of Love, The Art of Beauty, etc. The great Roman poet's famed work, combining amatory advice with a rake's recollections, scandalized Emperor Augustus when it first appeared about 1 B.C. Never had the Loves read as well in English as in the new translation by Rolfe Humphries, longtime Latin teacher and poet, who combines current lingo and idiom with...
...plea of possible self-incrimination should not lead automatically to dismissal of anyone from his job. But this case certainly necessitates a thorough investigation within the trade union family. His only alternative to prolonged humiliation is a quick resignation. In this free country no man accused of taking $320,000 from funds entrusted to his care in a worthy cause can admit that an explanation might incriminate him, and still retain his trust...
...study new developments than an opportunity to get new jobs. For their part, engineering firms, hard-pressed by a steadily increasing shortage of engineers (TIME, May 30), used the convention as a rich hunting ground for talent. Page after page of display ad's in Manhattan newspapers and trade journals invited engineers to investigate a wide variety of engineering jobs offering tempting salaries up to $15,000. Though open recruiting was forbidden at the convention, several companies complained that engineers were being "pirated" right at the convention's exhibit booths. But most of the recruiting went on behind...
...France, the bill for foreign oil imports is high. With coal, it almost equals her trade deficit. Last week the French Cabinet approved an ambitious plan that it hopes will drastically cut this bill. The plan: a $650 million to $800 million development of oil under the Sahara Desert, which France figures will provide 40% of her oil needs...
Until the reforms get under way, Spain hopes to get a temporary summer fillip from the tourist trade (about $100 million a year). But for the long haul, Spain looks for U.S. aid to put the country on its feet. Since 1954, stopgap U.S. food shipments at times prevented near fam ine, and $460 million in U.S. aid virtually kept the country solvent. Last week Span ish newspapers were blasting the U.S. for doling out less than the $200 million a year that Spain insists it needs. Actually, Spain will get very close to that amount: about $150 million...