Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet nation has been waging its campaign, Bergson said, while still maintaining the large degree of the economic independence nurtured by Stalin. The entire Soviet bloc, including Communist China, carries on only three percent of the world's trade outside the Soviet orbit...
...dailies, conservative Die Welt (245,000), which has on its staff some of Germany's ablest political analysts. Though Die Welt usually supports Konrad Adenauer's government, Editor in Chief Hans Zehrer often reflects the views of Hamburg's world traders that Bonn should establish closer trade and diplomatic ties with Russia and Red China (where Die Welt has its own correspondent...
Fair Game (by Sam Locke) concerns a very young, fetching and modest-budgeted divorcee who comes to New York to study at City College. She is soon modeling size tens in the garment center as well, with half the members of the garment trade making very forward passes. But she straight-arms them one and all, and overeager professors too; and after one near slip because of temporary despondency, she finds that the offers of mink stoles are changing into proposals of marriage...
...Those who looked beyond the car loadings could find considerable encouraging news. Retail trade is still at a higher level than in 1956, while personal income continues at a rate of $346.5 billion, $15.4 billion higher than last year. Detroit's automakers built 129,170 cars last week, the most since June and nearly 10% more than during the same week last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities...
Short Cut to Hell (Paramount). He, mechanically: "I'm not a person. I'm a gun . . . It's my trade. My profession. I shoot people." She, tenderly: "There's so much more to you than you'll admit. 1 know it ... Your hands . . . they could be the hands of an artist...