Word: trade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Claims Staked. Three presidential hopefuls have staked out claims on the area. In Puerto Rico last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed a program of greater economic aid, arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...
...million. LÓpez Mateos reversed course and slashed imports by $20 million a month by whacking public spending. The results: a severe crimp in the construction industry, a mild recession through much of the economy, but a nearly balanced budget and a favorable trade balance of $145 million so far this year. The peso has stayed at a sound...
...chartered for the press. The cost for transportation and hotels would be $4,000 per traveler, and a letter of application would be considered a contract for that amount. After this announcement, applications dwindled magically to 83 men and one woman, Elaine Shepard of Prentice-Hall (school books, trade publications), as nonworking applicants who were just going along for the ride dropped out and big agencies and publications cut their lists...
...Habit Is Everything. As general manager of the RCA Victor Record Division of the Radio Corporation of America, George Marek, 57, ranks as the world's biggest musical merchandiser. In the fiercely competitive, $400 million (retail) record market, Victor claims 25% of total sales. On the Christmas-trade counters last week Victor was pushing both a new Beecham version of Handel's Messiah and the Ames Brothers, a recording of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. and Elvis Presley's newest but possibly fading wails (see SHOW BUSINESS). Marek himself is a dedicated opera lover (among his books...
Since the Federal Communications Commission was set up to look after the public interest as affected by the broadcasting business, how could all those rivers of payola flood the land without provoking so much as a "tut, tut" from the commissioners? Scoring the FCC (and the Federal Trade Commission as well), the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond wrote: "They were supposed to be watching, and it wasn't until after they began to be scorched by public opinion that they showed any evidence that they thought they had much to do about...