Word: trades
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...eased. As Premier he courageously curbed credit and imports, decreased the subsidies that are the bane of the French economy. Understood in last week's aid agreement was his pledge to hold his tough line, keeping 1958's budget deficit to a "manageable" $1.4 billion, and the trade deficit around $400 million. By 1959 Gaillard expects the retooled economy to stand on its own with the world. Since last December it has been doing just that. Exports, including such invisible factors as tourism, exceeded imports for the first time since...
...immigrants, the army has a broader mission than in other countries. It serves not merely as a military organization, but also as an indoctrination and training institution for its recruits who enter as unskilled immigrants from perhaps Yemen or Hungary, emerge as nationally conscious Israeli citizens trained for a trade. The army's top officers have been notably wide-ranging in their interests; one chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, left his job to study archaeology at Oxford, is now Israel's chief expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dayan's successor, 38-year-old Major General Haim...
...Fairchild publications have felt at home in gingham ever since Edmund W. Fairchild bought a piece of a Chicago clothing trade paper in 1890. "Our Salvation Depends Upon Our Printing the News," is the admonishing slogan that hangs from the ceilings of Fairchild's twelve-story home office building just off lower Fifth Avenue. Over the years Edmund and his brother Louis founded five flourishing trade publications: Women's Wear Daily, Daily News Record (men's clothing industry; circ. 21,687), Men's Wear (a semimonthly for retailers; circ. 21,091), Home Furnishings Daily (circ...
There was once a sweetly pensive French popsy named Irma-la-Douce, who plied her trade on the streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because he returned her love, Nestor put on a false beard and booked Irma by the week. After an interlude on Devil's Island, Nestor returned to "Coulaincourt, where stroll the filles d'amour," to settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical...
ECONOMIC TROUBLES in Latin America will knock sizable dent in trade with U.S. this year. Latin nations are cutting down purchases of both machinery and consumer goods, will probably chop trade by 10% to less than $4 billion...