Word: traded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British electorate, representing the highest industrial working class in the world, should be uniquely favorable to a left-wing party. Yet in no election has the Labor Party won even fifty per cent of the vote. One of every three manual workers votes Conservative, including over three million trade unionists whos unions are committed to the Labor Party...
...they ran twice as many candidates as in 1955 and received over twice as many votes. Many of these were clearly protest votes, largely drawn from old Laborites and new voters. Most Liberal platforms were broad statements of interest in the "little man" and appeals for the liberalization of trade...
...protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the fund would act on a tougher policy "in the very near future," thus launching a major new step for a freer world trade...
...head off world recessions by doing away with the excesses that lead to them. A full gold standard, as they see it, would also put a damper on sudden expansions of credit not backed by gold, help stabilize prices, and step up the flow of capital-and thus international trade-by making all currencies freely convertible into gold...
Photographer Avedon, 36, began to learn his trade at 19, in the perfumed atmosphere of Harper's Bazaar. He has the usual virtues of the good fashion photographer, is brilliantly skillful, tirelessly careful, madly inventive. But he also has the vices of trick, splash and artiness. In his pictures he never murmurs if he can shout. He is a determined celebrity chaser, and with Observations he establishes himself as an accomplished face-dropper. Among his best pages...