Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 16 years spent learning his trade in routine jobs, Diplomat Murphy's breakthrough came in 1936. with the arrival in Paris of Ambassador William Bullitt, a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt's and a man with a sharp eye for young talent. "When I got to Paris." recalls Bullitt, "Murphy was No. 3 consul. He seemed so much abler than the No. 2 consul and the No. 1 consul that I had him made consul general.'' By 1939 Murphy was a full-blown counselor at the Paris embassy. "This," says Bullitt, "was going up very...
...Senate passed (72-18) a compromise reciprocal trade bill representing a major Eisenhower victory. The Senate originally voted a three-year extension of reciprocal trade and 15% tariff-cutting authority a year for the President. The House gave Ike what he sought, i.e., five years and up to 25%. The compromise bill provides four years, up to 20%. ¶ The Senate overrode (69-20) Ike's veto of a minor bill raising basic wages at the Kittery (Me.)-Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard to a $2.50-an-hour par with the Boston Naval Yard. The action marked the first time...
...civil aircraft (including turboprop), all kinds of trucks, tankers under 18 knots, industrial diamonds, all petroleum refinery equipment, all turbines and diesel engines. But for all their cries that the relaxed embargo was a victory of "common sense," the U.S.'s allies expect no dramatic rise in trade with Communist countries that have shown themselves so guided by political whims, so chronically plagued by a shortage of currency or a lack of goods that meet Western specifications. Though Britain's trade with Communist countries, for example, has more than doubled in the past seven years, it is still...
...cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
...last week cut their prices back to 26½?. But steel showed no sign of retreat, as steel price hikes spread to 65% of the industry's output. Though Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver started a probe of the increases, the Federal Trade Commission said that it had found no illegal price fixing in the steel industry, planned no action...