Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building-trade union discrimination against Negroes. Last week the civil rights question still divided labor's leadership. Walter Reuther, who had quit the A.F.L.-C.l.O. executive council over this and other issues and may ultimately lead his 1.5 million-member United Auto Workers out of the federation, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that craft union leaders were "hiding behind pious declarations on paper." His "greatest disappointment since the merger," said Reuther, "has been the failure of the labor movement to solve the problem of minority groups in the craft union setup...
...time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric power development, road building, dam construction and other internal improvements; the expansion of industry and trade; economic integration through a Latin American common market; and the need for less emphasis on Latin American spending for military purposes and more on spending for scientific research, public health, education and agriculture...
...comparatively rigid departmental requirements. Barkas enrolled his fall in a "junior conference" on U.S. relations with a divided Europe. The junior conferences--loose equivalents of the graduate policy conferences--split up into "commissions," which in turn split up into individual research projects. Mostly by luck, Barkas found himself studying trade with the Soviet Union...
...centers and warehouses span the nation. Atlanta Architect John Portman, 42, designer and managing partner of the San Francisco project, and Trammell Crow, 52, a wealthy Dallas realty investor, have already transformed the downtown skyline of Atlanta with their $50 million Peachtree Center of offices, a hotel and a trade mart. Dallas-based Cloyce K. Box, 43, onetime (1949-54) speedy end for the Detroit Lions professional football team, is chairman and chief executive of Manhattan's venerable George A. Fuller Co., builder of such landmarks as the new Metropolitan Opera, United Nations and Seagram buildings. Crow brought...
...NORWAY. Imports to satisfy Norway's craving for such consumer goods as television sets, cars and appliances led to a bigger trade deficit last year than had been expected. As a result, the populace is being urged to cut back on its spending; worried bankers are hoping that the coalition government will do the same...