Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue. Successor to the venerable weekly Southern Churchman, founded in 1835, Churchnews strove for a snappy, newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with big-name articles by Historian Arnold Toynbee, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Sportscaster Red Barber was not enough. Anonymous backers spent an estimated $650,000 trying to get Churchnews off the ground. But the publishers (the Southern Churchman Co.) could never hold more than...
WESTERN EMBARGO on Communist trade is easing fast. From list of exports that need separate licenses before they can be sent to U.S.S.R. and satellites, U.S. removed 200 commodities, including non-strategic manufacturing machines. Italy, West Germany lifted restrictions on exports to Red China of many strategic items, e.g., ships, generators, steel tubing, scientific instruments...
...CHINA AIR ROUTES for U.S. airlines will be urged by Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, who proposes that resumption of U.S. passenger and mail flights would be good first step toward opening trade with Chinese Communists. Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines hold certificates to fly to China, but cannot do so until State Department drops travel...
...TRADE FAIRS...
...best ways for the U.S. to spread the gospel of free enterprise-and for businessmen to sell its products-is to stage exhibits at foreign trade fairs. In the three years since the Government started to underwrite official exhibits at these shows, the U.S. has rung up priceless good will by unveiling the wares that symbolize its way of life to 40 million fair visitors in 27 countries. The 3,000 U.S. companies that contributed their goods also signed up millions of dollars in sales. Over the last fortnight, at Poland's Poznan Fair, the first U.S. trade exhibit...