Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weaken his position in the impending British elections by depicting the Moscow trip as a failure, only served to set off Macmillan's courtesy and firmness, and actually seem to have helped him at home. While Macmillan demonstrated his good faith by pushing for increases in trade and cultural exchanges, he still remained firm in rejecting a pact which would close United States air bases in England...
Duvalier still has backing from the U.S., which last week announced an emergency grant of $6,000,000 to meet Haiti's budget and trade deficits through September. Money is vitally needed; because of poor crops, the causes of death in Haiti this year will include outright starvation. The grant is also a frown from Washington on all plans for invasion and backyard...
...Manie Sacks, a man scarcely known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...blood of our fellow men and the guilt of the ages will be upon our hands if we do not warn men to return to the reconciling realities of the cross. What the world needs is not more military hardware, but more food, more love, more hope, more trade, more schools and medical care...
Sometimes the scholarly alms-asking goes wildly awry; one outfit mailed out letters advising businessmen that "we shall be happy to carry any product which, due to its distinctive shape or color, would be easy to publicize in our TV film without actually mentioning its trade name." Addresses got shuffled, and the letter was sent to a venerable trust fund whose officers were considering (but immediately ceased to consider) a request to support the group's lofty scientific aims...