Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Disney reveals the tricks of the trade that helped him make such features as Snow White, Fantasia...
...Warsaw government wishes to get trade credits here totaling about 100 million dollars at least. It wants these to finance the purchase of urgently needed cotton, modern farm machinery, new mining equipment, fats and oils, chemical fertilizer and grains for cattle food...
Sinclair Weeks, 63. Secretary of Commerce, has never completely overcome his conservative New England business views. (A portrait of Herbert Hoover occupies the honor spot in his office.) But in four years he has marched much closer to Eisenhower progressivism, especially in the sphere of international trade. He has mellowed towards lower tariffs, fought for U.S. membership in the antiprotectionist Organization for Trade Cooperation. To Weeks goes major credit for fostering U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs that have combated Communist propaganda and helped raise U.S. exports. He has made such long-needed improvements as a Patent Office speedup, broader...
...reaching newsstands. Chief reason: both magazines carried a two-page Swift & Co. ad containing twelve coupons, each of which was good for a 10? or 15? discount on Swift meat products ranging from dog food to frankfurters. Grocers, tipped off by Swift's six-page advance ads in trade magazines, bustled to buy LIFE and Look. They figured that they could turn a Swift profit, since the coupons alone in each 15? Look and 20? LIFE were worth $1.45, plus a 24? redemption bonus for storekeepers, plus a chance at winning a prize in Swift...
...avoid tariff increases that would be a blow to free trade, U.S. and Japanese commerce officials tried to work out a compromise. U.S. manufacturers wanted to limit imports to 225 million yds. overall in 1957. Japan held out for its 1955 level of 270 million yds.-half in yardage fabric, half in readymade goods. When U.S. textilemen suggested more Japanese concentration on yardage cotton goods (dominated by more efficient U.S. producers), Japanese Cotton Spinner Spokesman Yasuo Tawa said tartly: "They are giving us broad fishing areas where there are no fish, and shutting us out of narrow seas which...