Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valera moved up to the presidency, Lemass stepped in as Prime Minister. In power, he improved relations with long-hated Britain, broke precedent by making a friendly call on Ulster's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, and launched the country on a vast and varied industrialization and trade-expansion program aimed at boosting the gross national product...
...Wilson revealed the cautious conclusion: a decision for "a new high-level approach" to the Common Market "to see whether the conditions exist-or do not exist-for fruitful negotiations." His first move, he said, would be to call a meeting of the leaders of the seven European Free Trade Association nations, some of which, like Denmark and Austria, are if anything more anxious than Britain to link up with the Six. After that, Wilson plans to pay personal visits to all of the capitals of the Six to press Britain's case. He did not add, because...
...Merle Hayward, an executive of the Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., the U.S.'s largest Christmas-and general-display firm, and a 1966 study by the National Retail Merchants comes to the same conclusion. By last week all five major Manhattan department stores had their holiday toylands open for trade, and their Christmas boutiques were stuffed with wrappings, gifts, cards and decorations. Such cities as Portland, Ore., may still wait until the day after Thanksgiving to trim their streets, but Elmsford, N.Y., has its holiday wattage in place...
...Thanksgiving," says another. "Don't eat your turkey without dressing." With such cards for holidays and for just about any other occasion as well, Cleveland's American Greetings Corp. is the fastest-growing company in the U.S.'s $800 million-a-year greeting-card industry. The trade's five biggest companies-Hallmark, American Greetings, Gibson, Norcross and Rust Craft-have a steady annual increase in sales. American Greetings alone is growing almost 14% a year, this year will have record sales of $94 million...
Since 1949, under the Export Control Act passed to keep strategic goods out of possibly unfriendly hands, U.S. businessmen who wanted to trade with Communist nations had to obtain special licenses to ship even such seemingly nonstrategic items as breakfast cereal and suspenders. Last month, however, in an effort to build better trade relations, president Johnson relaxed many of the barriers. Such definitely hostile nations as North Viet Nam, North Korea and Cuba remain on a no-trade list; but for others like Russia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, restrictions have been eased. Off the license list came more than 400 items...