Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination of improving world markets, an abundant supply of top-quality wheat, and energetic selling should give Canada a fatter share of the world wheat market. A team of Wheat Board salesmen plans to tour Europe this fall. Trade and Commerce Minister Gordon Churchill is also considering a personal selling visit to the Soviet Union, and possibly Red China, to try for bigger orders from last year's most surprising new customers. The one major stumbling block to bumper business is the U.S., which is completing a billion-bushel harvest of its own and is just as anxious...
...carries "26% less tar than any other cigarette." Of ten major brands in fierce competition for the filter-cigarette business, five claim that their filters filter best-and each backs its claim with an impressive array of tests. The argument over which to believe has interested the Federal Trade Commission and Congress. Says Congressman John A. Blatnik, chairman of a House subcommittee that investigated cigarette advertising: "There are so many claims and counterclaims that we just do not know how much tar and nicotine is involved...
...weeks, the Administration's metals subsidy plan (TIME, May 19) finally died last week at the hands of the House of Representatives. Originally put forward to bolster prices in five depressed industries (copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, fluorspar) -and incidentally win support for the President's reciprocal trade program from mining-state Congressmen-the $458 million support program ran into rough going after passing the Senate. Chief reason: many Congressmen felt that the bill would aid mainly those big international producers who are making money anyway and are doing most of the importing that has helped depress domestic prices...
...compete on even terms with RCA's-and $4,300,000 worth of them poured into U.S. markets in 1958's first six months. The one trouble is that so many fly-by-night Japanese companies are trying to hop aboard the gravy train that the Japanese Trade Ministry has been forced to lay down a check price of $14.95 for exports, refuse licenses to firms that price below...
Nabokov's intellectual luggage included fragments of a book that later, published in Paris in 1955, became a must item of the contraband spice trade in which Henry Miller's Tropics have bulked large. Now. after several years of subterranean fame, Lolita has finally found a U.S. publisher. Following Nabokov's earlier excellent, offbeat novels (including Pnin, TIME, March 18, 1957), Lolita should give his name its true dimensions and expose a wider U.S. public to his special gift-which is to deal with life as if it were a thing created by a mad poet...