Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of current estimates, said Verrier, the 1957 budget will be in the red by $350 million (at the free rate), and a foreign-trade deficit of $250 million is in sight by year's end. This would more than wipe out the nation's $237 million in gold and dollar reserves...
Like most calypso singers, Kontiki learned his trade on the streets, where, as one of 16 children in a poor family, he spent most of his time. Unlike most, he devoted himself from the start strictly to politics rather than other topical matters, praising democrats and making fun of strongmen. During the 1952 Panamanian elections he made his professional breakthrough with a glowing ditty about a democrat of sorts, the late President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remon. The lyrics, shunning excess modesty, called Remon "the saviour of Panama"; Remon used it as a campaign jingle, and after he won the election...
After 20 months of hiding, the slight, balding clothing salesman made a mistake. He dickered with a Miami Beach car dealer and got a good trade-in on his battered '54 Oldsmobile. The auto dealer made a routine title check with Brookline, Mass., where the car had been bought. When the clothing salesman picked up his new Chevrolet, a Massachusetts state police lieutenant and a Miami cop arrested him. The charge: kidnaping...
...procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain's intention to reduce her European defense forces, and he will probably bring up relaxation of the trade embargo with Communist China...
...balance of trade hit an astonishing $495 million in Brazil's favor, "mostly due to exceptional coffee sales and to the government's firm policy of defending the market against pressures apt to cause a fall in prices abroad...