Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Padang's cost-of-living index has risen 77 points in the last five years against 144 for Djakarta; bartering its rubber with Singapore produces an estimated $1,500,000 a month in profits. When Djakarta seized eight South Sumatran ships in an effort to halt the barter trade, the rebels quickly got them released by threatening to cut off Djakarta's oil supplies from Sumatra's refineries. Simbolon can also point to the fact that its barter taxes and profits have been either deposited in Padang and Palembang, pending a settlement with Djakarta, or used...
...letter to Sukarno. Sjafruddin lashed out at Sukarno's concept of "guided democracy" (TIME, March 4), said scathingly: "Guided democracy is fascism. I have become aware that the present government under Your Excellency's leadership will eventually destroy the nation . . . Believe me, the government prohibition against barter trade will not be heeded. How can people be "forbidden to eat rice obtained from barter if rice from [the government stores] is not forthcoming...
Snake Specialty. With the boom in vet medicine has come a tendency to specialization. In metropolitan centers where the trade is concentrated, some vets practice exclusively on dogs or cats or birds. Los Angeles' Dr. Norman Gale has made a name as a specialist in the complaints of snakes, turtles, tortoises, lizards and frogs. (Gale has performed Caesareans on two snakes; he could not save the mothers, but did not lose a single wriggling baby.) Burbank's Dr. J. Bradley Crundwell gets the feathered trade, mostly parrots, parakeets and canaries...
Around recording studios, where the best musical reputations are stubbed out during coffee breaks like smoked-down cigarettes, a West Coast lad named Jimmie Rodgers currently enjoys unanimous popularity. Jimmie is one of the hottest new singing properties in the trade. Without the benefit of Elvis' sweaty circumvolutions or Pat Boone's white-buckskin charms, 24-year-old Jimmie figures to rake in $200,000 this year. The charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees...
...Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing. If a customer took out his own piece of paper and pencil to note figures...