Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit ended last week, there was little joy or tenderness left in Lisbon. "Everything the British embassy has done," snorted 0 Século, "has been as if Portugal were too dangerous for people to visit...
Getting Results. Frondizi's plan to force Argentina to live within its means -by removing price subsidies from food, freeing foreign trade, freeing the artificially pegged peso to find its real level-has ended what used to be one of the most comfortable ways of life in the world. With prices rising, beef consumption is down 40%, capital district retail sales 60%, attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital...
Brown-haired and blue-eyed, Roy Face is a carpenter in the off season-a trade that runs in the family. His father, grandfather, two brothers and five uncles are all carpenters. When he was 20, he struck out 36 batters in two semi-pro games on successive Sundays, was promptly signed by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirates later drafted him from Fort Worth...
Then a garage mechanic hired him and taught him welding. It was his salvation. Using his new-found trade, he was able to pitch in with two other students, submitted a project that won the Beaux-Arts' first prize. Made to look like a fish on the outside (to satisfy the Beaux-Arts) and a tangle of nuts and bolts inside (to satisfy César), his piece was bought by France's Musée d'Art Moderne...
...grew like a weed in the tourist thaw that followed. Though all its stock is owned by the government, Intourist still uses the forms of a capitalist corporation, holds annual stockholders' meetings attended by representatives of Soviet ministries. It also turns over to the U.S.S.R. Bank of Foreign Trade a healthy capitalistic profit, which will be swelled by a $5,000,000 take from U.S. tourists alone this year...