Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side on such bills as this year's four-year extension of reciprocal trade...
French flag still flies over the gates. The rising opposition of young Moslem activists in Morocco found the U.S. bases a convenient weapon to use against King Mohammed V's moderate regime. "Aggression and exploitation," cried a Moroccan trade-union weekly. Egged on by extremists, the Moroccan government forbade U.S. ships to land gear, even set up roadblocks near the Atlantic coast in case U.S. ships should try sneak unloading of trailer trucks...
...first time since 1932, delegates from eleven Commonwealth lands gathered for a full-dress trade conference. Called to Montreal by Canada's trade-and-aid-minded Tory government, the delegates spent a turbulent first week sniping at one another's trade barriers. Then they got down to business and demonstrated that while free trade is easier said than done, much can be accomplished by the free, friendly flow of ideas...
Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...
...recast Esquire is the man who made the mold in the first place: furrow-browed, loquacious Arnold Gingrich, 54, founding editor and present publisher. Gingrich was just 29 in 1933 when he put together the first issue of the magazine with a pair of Chicago men's-wear trade publishers named David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub. For $200 a throw, he got short stories and articles from such Depression-struck authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passes, Ezra Pound and Dashiell Hammett (one exception: Ernest Hemingway, who got $1,000 for The Snows...