Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotel registers. For five days next week, they will discuss needs, techniques and potentials of a growing partnership of world business. Among specific subjects they will examine: the world population explosion; the future demand on industrial production; the high cost of money; national markets, common markets and free-trade areas; labor's role in economic development; the challenge to private capital. In short, the agenda adds up to this resounding objective: how to raise standards of living for the peoples of the world through increased capital investment and economic growth...
...party plan at her husband and shrilled: "Take it back. Give us a program for the next five years of Labor government." But Nye sat silently on, and Hugh Gaitskell had the votes. Hard-fisted Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers Union, swung the trade union's massive support to him in return for a pledge that road transport and steel, restored to private ownership by the Tories in 1953, would be renationalized when the Laborites return to power...
...British Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft showed the determination. "I have not come to discuss the exchange-rate parity of the pound," said he. "It stays at $2.80. I stated this before I left London. I repeat it now.'' One cogent reason was a stronger British trade surplus than expected, equivalent to $600 million in the year ended June 30, against previous official predictions of $350 million. Even at the risk of unemployment from the tightening of money by the Bank of England fortnight ago, said Thorneycroft, Britain will defend the proud pound...
Prime Essential. The underdeveloped countries were also concerned over the fact that the inflationary boom in industrial countries is soaking up most of the world's capital, while the huge new growth in world trade had developed mainly between advanced countries. No industrial nation denied the validity of this analysis, but to a great degree, they pointed out, it was the responsibility of the underdeveloped countries themselves...
...George and I were there, weren't we?" It tickled John, and it was literally true. Though they owned only 40% of the stock, they also controlled the other 60% held in trust for the heirs of their two sisters and brother Edward,* who could neither vote nor trade...