Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unerasable Smile. The caller was Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice...
...TRADE EMBARGOES will be eased again. Western Europe and Japan want restrictions loosened on metalworking machinery and equipment for chemical, oil, power and electronic industries. U.S. is expected to bow to pressure...
AUSTRALIAN TRADE with Japan is looking up after years of bitter enmity. Chances are good that Japanese will land contracts for two Australian dams, one power plant, and two water-diversion tunnels...
Meeting at The Hague last week, Premiers of the three nations looked back on eleven years' experience of union, and found it good. Lowered trade barriers had not brought ruinous competition for small local industries, but expansion. Trade among the three countries has trebled in a decade (to $1,100,000,000 in 1956), while trade with other countries doubled...
...largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that in 1954 the Government filed an antitrust suit against it, charging that the company controlled the banana lands of Central America and monopolized the banana trade. Last week, on the eve of a trial in New Orleans Federal District Court, United agreed to a consent decree under which it will create a new competitor...