Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major business district along Harlem's 125th Street. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in fact, has encouraged the move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building two 110-story skyscrapers for the World Trade Center in the Wall Street area. That is the kind of act, says Urban Critic Wolf von Eckardt, that is tantamount to "ur-bicide"-city killing...
...preserve the purses and privileges. Last week princes of both the ruling and opposition parties held hasty meetings all over India to discuss their next step. In Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, 40 former rulers decided to fight with modern methods: they formed what was, in effect, a trade union to battle for their rights...
Troubled Allies. The planned withdrawal is as much due to Britain's strict austerity drive-initiated a year ago-as it is to De Gaulle. The British are having a hard time trying to wipe out their foreign-trade deficit and shore up the pound, which last week was shakier than it has been for a year, partly because of trade losses stemming from the war in the Middle East. Thus, the $384 million that Britain paid last year for the upkeep of bases outside Europe looked like a luxury. Healey intends to cut this figure to about...
...Reality. To be sure, Salmon is esteemed by 20th century Brahmins for slightly different reasons from those which made him Boston's most fashionable marine painter of his day. Having plied his trade for 30 years as a relatively unknown maritime artist in Liverpool and Scotland, Salmon emigrated to Boston in 1828 at the age of 53. He found it the center of youthful America's bustling maritime commerce. Prosperous merchants commissioned portraits of their stately brigs and packets, much as doting mammas demand likenesses of their children...
...Washington, the railroads in 1961 changed Railway Express from a cooperative to a profit-and-loss company. Though still railroad-owned, it was granted a more liberal routing and pricing structure. To shed the railroad image and to give more emphasis to the best performing division, Air Express, its trade name was changed to REA express...