Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tyranny, his is the quickest and sharpest intelligence, and he is the slickest and shrewdest operator. He is the supreme Soviet trader, the one big Bolshevik to show both the talent and the will for business enterprise. As such, he not only organized a $120 billion-a-year retail trade (200 million customers) and a $6.2 billion-a-year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics that is unmatched among Politburocrats. To two generations of Western diplomats and trade negotiators, this brisk and comprehending commissar has seemed "the best...
Mikoyan's life remained just as closely geared to the dictator's. Britain's former Laborite Secretary for Overseas Trade Harold Wilson recalls that, in tune with Stalin's nocturnal habits, negotiations with Mikoyan "usually began at 10 or midnight and ended at 4 or even 6 a.m. Once he said: 'You in England have been traders for many centuries. But we know how to bargain, too-I come from a long line of Armenian traders!' ): Another time, when Wilson chaffed, "The trouble with you Russians . . ." Mikoyan broke in: "I am not a Russian...
...Stalin's life, Mikoyan's name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious "doctors' plot"; in his famed secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev said that Stalin then scathingly "characterized Molotov and Mikoyan" and "evidently had plans to finish them off." After negotiating a trade agreement with one Scandinavian nation, Mikoyan had become a close acquaintance of the country's ambassador, who entertained him frequently. In their family circle Mikoyan relaxed and played parlor games. But in that winter Mikoyan cut his friend and other foreign acquaintances dead...
CURBS ON EXPORTS to Poland will be greatly eased. Commerce Department is lifting restrictions on a wide list of industrial and farm items, will even consider exporting such strategic goods as petroleum, magnesium, machine tools, electronic components, etc. Department hopes to accelerate U.S.-Polish trade, expects it to jump 130% to about $75 million this year...
...FAIR TRADE is out in South Carolina, tenth state to rule that manufacturer may not set retailers' prices. In legal battle between fair-trading General Electric Co. and Columbia, S.C. discount house, state supreme court gutted fair-trade law by striking down "non-signer clause," which says that stores must abide by fixed-price agreements even if they do not sign such pacts...