Word: traded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money," largely used to finance imports, and responsible for keeping the Canadian dollar at a high $1.05½ in U.S. currency). Both Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Opposition Leader Lester Pearson, hopeful of more sales to Europe, urge Canada to take the lead in the promotion of a free-trade area among NATO nations...
...alternative is governmental or natural devaluation of the Canadian dollar. Such a step would tend to bolster the trade balance by making exports more attractive and imports more expensive, but would cut the standard of living. Second choice is some form of economic integration with the U.S. That would probably involve the reciprocal reduction or elimination of duties (a reciprocity treaty was approved by Congress in 1911, but the government of Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier went to the Canadian electorate asking support and was defeated). But that would erode Canada's economic sovereignty, which many Canadians consider already sufficiently...
...first peacetime month since he Depression year of 1937, had a trade deficit of $21 million in June...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...
...piano literature for one hand can pretty well be numbered on the fingers of two. Scriabin, Brahms. Ravel and Strauss all took a shot at it, along with such moderns as Benjamin Britten and Leos Janacek.* The rest of the left-hand repertory is pretty much what the trade calls "knitting music." But a platoon of composers in Holland last week was hard at work on some new and surprisingly engaging left-hand pieces to be played by a recent recruit to the field: 45-year-old Dutch Pianist Cor de Groot...