Word: traded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...released the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., Comrade V.M. Molotov, from the duties of Minister of Foreign Affairs." It had appointed Andrei Vishinsky as Foreign Minister. Also, it had released the Deputy Chairman etc., A. I. Mikoyan, from the post of Minister of Foreign Trade and appointed in his stead M. A. Menshikov...
Needed: Good Beer. Mikoyan is the U.S.S.R.'s prime businessman, with a finger in all the pies. Usually brushed off in the U.S. as "foreign trade chief," he was also, until last week, supervisor of all Soviet domestic commerce, director of consumer-goods production, director of the production of food, supervisor of the ministries of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy. And, in addition, he has been one of the few people with whom Stalin liked to pass his hours of relaxation...
...Vodka. The leak of Cheke's trade secrets made Cheke's own maxims hard going for an embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning...
Nehru was not terrorized. In his angriest attack on the Reds, he said: ". . . Communists have looked upon these strikes not from the trade union point of view . . . but as a weapon designed to create a chaotic state in the country . . . [They are] deliberately seeking to create famine conditions by paralyzing our railway system ... It is not the government's conception of civil liberty to permit methods of coercion and terrorism...
...stores already signed up for the program include everything from clothiers (men's and women's) to florists, and Bornstein promises that more are coming in every day. "Fair trade" provisions in such fields as books and records, which cannot legally be sold cut-rate, limited the scope of the program, however...