Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that he could not count on any help along those lines from the Republican Party; any such attempt would mean a split with his party, open warfare with Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. Well, asked Nehru, why doesn't the U.S. at least relax its trade embargoes with Red China? Patiently the President explained that until Peking proves itself a more acceptable member of the international community, he has no intention of recommending such action...
...Today, at 72, Ishibashi is one of Japan's foremost economists, but a reputation for unorthodoxy persists. Last week, becoming Japan's new Premier (TIME, Dec. 24), his first act was to attempt to discount widespread impressions that he: 1) favors an inflationary policy; 2) plans unlimited trade with Red China; 3) opposes U.S. policy on Japan...
...been selling the pound short in the belief that it might be devalued, began withdrawing from the attack. Further indirect support is almost certain in the shape of a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, possibly as high as $700,000,000, to help finance Britain's foreign trade...
...directly out of his life. He was born (1876) in rowdy, brawling San Francisco, the illegitimate son of an itinerant Irish astrologer. His mother, abandoned by the stargazer, shot herself (the injury proved slight), and then married John London, a decent man who couldn't stick to any trade and therefore was glamorized by young Jack as "a soldier, trapper, backwoodsman and wanderer." Anyone with such a background might be excused for thinking human nature too complicated to figure out, and London's works-18 novels, 20 collections of short stories, seven nonfiction books, three plays...
FREEDOM OR DEATH, by Nikos Kazantzakis. Greece's greatest living writer in a passionate affirmation of patriotism, in which 19th century Cretans trade life for the hope of freedom from their Turkish oppressors...