Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennedy was the only Senator from tariff-conscious New England to vote for the President's liberalized international trade program...
These 100 inspirational tales of "men and women who weren't afraid to take a chance" are culled from issues of Fortune magazine and now issued for the paper-cover trade. In the preface the editors state their conviction that "the entrepreneurs, who are the central figures in each story, are an important element in the U.S. economy" and that "there are plenty of opportunities, in good times and bad, for those who have the wit to see them...
...even if it was lost on Maggie, the standing committee could see the difference between a reporter who plies his trade before a television camera, sponsored or not (e.g., Meet the Press, Reporter's Roundup, Face the Nation), and a reporter who sells her byline over a commercial spiel printed in the guise of news. Last week the committee unanimously accepted Newshen Higgins' "withdrawal." Maggie said she was undisturbed at the loss of her congressional press credentials. Said she: "I depend upon personal contact...
...format and production. No filmed variety seems quite as canned as Sinatra's; it is shot without an audience and without any attempt to simulate a live show. The result recalls the half-hour musical shorts that Hollywood used to manufacture as filler for movie houses. One trade report says that Sinatra ground out eleven of his shows in 15 days. They look that...
...death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...