Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey recommended that large corporations review their policies to avoid making it difficult for executives to serve the government, that business schools place greater emphasis on research in government problems, and that the trade press expand its coverage of the whole area of government administration...
...score of frazzled committee members, leaving wan and weary Chairman Wilbur Mills behind to talk to reporters. Arkansas' Mills had an announcement of key importance: pending a final vote this week, the committee had informally approved the Eisenhower Administration's five-year extension of the reciprocal-trade program, with authority for the President to cut tariffs by an additional 25% at the top rate of 5% a year...
Behind that announcement lay weeks of wrangling and hours of bone-tiring, closed-door committee sessions under Wilbur Mills, longtime reciprocal-trade advocate, whose hopes to be Sam Rayburn's successor as Democratic House Speaker might well be at stake in the success or failure of the trade bill. At one point Mills was so discouraged that he predicted total House defeat for reciprocal trade, urged the Administration to take responsibility for watering down its own program (TIME, May 19). When the Administration stood firm, Mills went back to work. The gizmo that finally won the Ways & Means Committee...
...recanted, and was suddenly respectable again. His book The Naked God, about his break with the party, found a regular trade publisher and was widely reviewed. His new novel, Moses, Prince of Egypt, was also reviewed, and its publisher was enthusiastic enough to buy a full page in The New York Times Book Review to tell the world about...
...also been recognized with awards. Lawrence D. Favro, 4G has received the David J. Robbins prize of $260 to be used for cultural activities and recreation. The $500 David A. Wells prize was granted to Richard E. Caves, Ph.D. for his thesis entitled, "Recent Developments in General-Equilibrium International Trade Theory...