Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trade Identity...
...Working Tool. The largest share of the parent company's business is done with the U.S. through a ten-month-old subsidiary called Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., which, with headquarters in Manhattan's Pan Am Building and branches in eight other cities, handled some $420 million in trade during its first six months alone. For years, a significant chunk of Mitsui's business has come from "off shore trading" deals involving the U.S. and countries other than Japan. In one case, Mitsui shipped U.S. machinery to Brazil, which in turn sent coffee to Sweden, which...
...garde came storming through. Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, the shaggy-surreal saga of a Village idiot who hopes to get rich quick by persuading female midgets to use contact lenses as contraceptives, opened in a Lower East Side cin bin that was soon crammed by the cab trade from uptown. And Shirley Clarke's Jason, a harrowing 120-minute interview with a black male prostitute, was offered a midtown opening as a hard-eyed cautionary tale and a surefire succes de scandale...
Fears & Alarms. In recent weeks, the fear of Nkrumah-planned subversion has forced Ankrah to become increasingly tough. His men have uncovered two separate shipments of explosives and hand grenades being smuggled into Ghana to be used, so police say, to sabotage the big International Trade Fair, now under way in Accra. The country is full of rumors about assassination plots against the military rulers. Two army officers and two other men have been arrested on the charge of plotting a countercoup. Cracking down, the military regime has enacted an antisubversion law that is reminiscent of Nkrumah...
France gained the monetary strength to choose this freedom greatly at U.S. expense. Cashing in the dollars it earns from its trade surplus, France since 1958 has drained the U.S. of $3.6 billion in gold, amassed a solid $5.5 billion official store of the yellow metal to back its currency. Though private gold holdings have been illegal in the U.S. for a generation, the nation backs its dollar abroad with gold, has lost gold in twelve of the past 16 years...