Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the false armistice failed, Mayor Tacky Gayle ordered a get-tough policy. Gayle and his city commissioners made a great show of joining the White Citizens' Council. (Said Police Commissioner Clyde Sellers: "I wouldn't trade my Southern birthright for 100 Negro votes.") Police harassment followed: King was arrested for speeding; Negro car-pool drivers were haled into court for trivial violations...
...cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing to accept Israeli money, and the only shop that the Israelis had opened in the strip reported no trade because purchases could be made only in Israeli pounds...
...Trade Not Aid. To spur economic progress in this pattern, the Administration encourages the flow of dollars to Latin America by trade and private investment. "The 168 million people in the U.S. cannot export prosperity to the 175 million people in our sister republics. There is only one really effective way to expand our trade, and that is to increase our imports from the area. The Eisenhower Administration has been notably successful in defending its trade policy toward Latin America, despite an annual barrage of proposed laws, tariffs and other restrictions designed to eliminate some competitive Latin American product...
...After trade, this Administration believes the most desirable source of dollar income is private investment . . . Loans have to be repaid, both principal and interest, whether or not the investment earns a profit. Not so with private investment. For the private investor to withdraw a dividend, he must first earn it. And investments are like trade in that there is no limit to their expansion...
Track coach Bill McCurdy, the master of the psychological needle, will ply his trade on his favorite adversary, Yale's coach Bob Giegengack before the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular meet at Yale's Coxe Cage, this afternoon...