Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barns. Instead, before the day was over, 6,000 men and women employees were on a sitdown strike, demanding that their 800-zlotys monthly pay (enough to buy one pair of shoes) be increased 50%. The militia fired tear gas and wielded clubs. A worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed 750 trucks into action to provide transportation in Poland's second largest city (pop. 675,000), and banned the sale of vodka to prevent "real trouble...
...heavy arms burden, while Germany for years had no army of its own, and now that it has one, has yet to meet its NATO pledges. In a less argumentative way, Erhard points to the fact that West Germany still runs a deficit ($600 million last year) in its trade with the U.S., and blandly suggests that he might be prepared to revalue the Deutsche Mark if the U.S. would take "moral leadership" by revaluing the dollar upward first-a highly unlikely happening...
...East Germany, and his ire began to come up. After calling Hitler "the hangman of the international workers' movement," Khrushchev addressed himself directly to Konrad Adenauer, as if the West German Chancellor were in his audience. Why, he demanded, should Adenauer's government have now revived, at trade talks in Moscow, the question of repatriating the 60,000 to 90,000 Germans left behind in Russia in World War II? Said Khrushchev: "We have long since come to agreement on repatriation of prisoners of war, and this has been carried out. I lost...
...Even after they lost First Baseman Joe Adcock with a broken leg and Outfielder Bill Bruton with an injured kneecap, the Milwaukee Braves kept right on running -hanging on among the leaders of the tightest National League pennant race in years. Then they made a routine trade and picked up Veteran Second Baseman Red Schoendienst from the Giants. With the oldtimer (almost 13 years in the big leagues, most of them with the St. Louis Cardinals) chattering at second and telling them how, the Braves caught their second wind, sprinted down the August stretch with a ten-game winning streak...
Empty Seats. At week's end the team of Nick and Mick broke up. Mikoyan, the trade specialist, journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...