Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that the Parisian worker lives and plies his trade...
...Dickens' Madame Defarge. "Madame Guillotine," he called her. "All that's missing is the knitting." As her friends from Labor's left have learned, she is first and foremost a Wilson loyalist, having served him as parliamentary private secretary when he was Board of Trade president from 1947 to 1951 and as a member of his Cabinet since 1964. He can use her support now more than ever before. The discontent with Wilson is ubiquitous: last week a pint-sized delegation from the under-five generation picketed No. 10 Downing Street demanding more nursery schools...
...nbergs made Their money honestly enough, in trade, In trolley-cars, in diamonds, bonds, or beer, Banking, or railroads, well-established here By the mid-Eighties, in an atmosphere Of opulence, unquestionably graced With what their times and peers would call good taste, Arbiters of suburban etiquette, Leaders of the town-and-country set. They learned to adapt themselves to wearing spats, Frock-coats, striped morning-trousers, bowler hats, They learned to give high teas, to ride to hounds, To keep within the proper meets and bounds, Were public-spirited, would patronize, Most lavishly, the decent charities; Noblesse oblige. Somewhere...
...deluge has been heaviest. In the Philippines, where the number of American troops and dependents has increased to 50,000 since the start of the Viet Nam buildup, the U.S. military outlay last year was $150 million, which helped considerably in easing the effects of Manila's outsize trade deficit...
...from sandbags to Isuzu buses. The war less directly helped generate another $800 million in Japanese exports; for example, G.I.s based in Southeast Asia purchased 13% of Japan's total camera exports. Other beneficiaries include Singapore and Malaysia, which store and ship Viet Nam-bound petroleum products, a trade that amounted last year to some $100 million between them...