Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small huts and villages of the countryside--where the only signs of modernization are telephone wires strung along the rutted and tortuous roads. Most peasants work small plots of land for their food, live in thatched huts or rusted tin shacks, and try to raise pigs or chickens for trade in the city marketplaces...
...vaccine, tested on over 1,200 flu sufferers by the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company of Indianapolis, is now being marketed under the trade name Zonomune. It was developed by Lilly in cooperation with scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Institutes of Health. Using a modified high-speed centrifuge, a research team headed by Dr. Norman G. Anderson of the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was able to remove 95% of the vaccine impurities that have caused side effects in the past. The Lilly Co. has bought three of the $40,000, 32,000-r.p.m...
...died recently. Police have not traced the crime to the unions, but the Examiner had no doubts. In a front-page editorial, the paper put the blame squarely on the strikers. "This cold-blooded murder," said the paper, "heads a long list of crimes and violence since eleven trade unions went on strike." The paper then proceeded to list 150 incidents. "The Herald-Examiner," concluded the editorial, "will not be moved by intimidation." The paper offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the printer's assailant...
...exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Thomas Pynchon (V.), and Bruce Jay Friedman (A Mother's Kisses) worship her for her combination of good business sense and warm understanding of their difficulties. The trade calls her "the Den Mother of Black Humor...
...Auctioneer. Manhattan's Scott Meredith, 43, perhaps the nation's most successful literary agent, approaches his work in a considerably colder spirit. Some years ago, the trade set up the Society of Authors' Representatives, a gentlemanly association of agents who valiantly try to regulate their business with a code of ethics. He is its most important nonmember. He advertises the services of his 30-man staff, and he charges a fee for reading manuscripts-two functions frowned upon by the S.A.R. Meredith can afford the frowns. His stable includes Norman Mailer, Gerald Green, Ellery Queen, Mickey Spillane...