Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banking and Currency Committee to his successful sponsorship of a bill establishing National Safe Boating Week (at the request of his old service, the Coast Guard). The newsletters gave him a chance to sell his own ideas about issues on which the Sixth District was doubtful, among them reciprocal trade, which Chamberlain supported even though many Sixth District automen, fearful of foreign competition, were in opposition...
...years after that wild day when the Egyptians sank 40 ships to plug the Suez Canal, the world's No. 1 international waterway hummed last week with peaceful trade, and a golden flood of hard-currency tolls poured into President Nasser's United Arab Republic treasury...
...many as 10% of patients with high blood pressure, after intensive treatment for several months with hydralazine (trade name: Apresoline), develop symptoms resembling those of rheumatoid arthritis or disseminated lupus erythematosus; stubborn cases may need treatment with ACTH or cortisone-type hormones-which can also be dangerous (see below...
...Moscow. He entered college when he was twenty-two to study economics and recalls that "at the time I entered college, I didn't know what would become of me after five years." His interest in economics, however, led him to write his thesis on food-stuffs and world trade, a field he was later to specialize in. He took his course in the evening, and during the day worked in a cold storage plant. He graduated from the Moscow Economic Institute...
Soon after his graduation, he worked with an export-import company, but left that to accept a position in England with a British-Russian trading corporation. His "acquired practical knowledge" of international economics and world trade, he confesses modestly, helped him become president of the second largest corporation in Russia, where he was in charge of all exportation and importation of timber...