Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promises that the Eisenhower Administration will press for congressional renewal of the Reciprocal Trade...
...Invisible. Around the turn of the 19th century Blake walked the streets of London as if invisible. The city was the portrait center of the world. Sir Joshua Reynolds was discoursing at the Royal Academy. Two expatriate Americans, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, plied an elegant trade. Blake meanwhile engraved and illustrated his own poems, and did illustrations for Milton, Dante and the Bible, working prodigiously to create some of the most magnificent and moving volumes ever made, which he sold, when he could sell them at all, for little more than a dinner...
Last Flight. At Djakarta's sprawling port of Tandjong Priok, lean little Indonesian commandos swirled up in dusty U.S. trucks and mounted guard over Dutch ships and port facilities. In the capital itself, workers of the Communist-dominated SOBSI (an all-Indonesia association of trade unions) ejected Dutch officials from the gleaming white colonial buildings that house the Royal Packet Service Co. (K.P.M.) and the Netherlands Handelsbank...
...told them that "there will obviously not be a tax cut" in 1958, though neither "do we anticipate a tax increase" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Nixon also hinted at the possibility of an unbalanced budget, made a strong plea for foreign aid, plugged for the extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
...Knopf is the New York Times's notoriously Phelpsian Orville Prescott. Says Knopf: Prescott can "make them buy the book he praises. We would all benefit enormously were there a dozen like him. Whether they were sound critics wouldn't matter so much to the book trade-not to start with, at any rate...