Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other bottom fish) and thus protect beleaguered U.S. ground fishermen against further imports (now 128 million Ibs. -annually, three times higher than in 1945), chiefly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength is of strategic importance to us." Moreover, "I am not persuaded that [the tariff hike] would constitute a sound step in resolving [the domestic industry's] difficulties"-at the heart of which, Administration spokesmen have pointed out, are declining...
Three candidates for the succession, all hale and heartily conservative but not a great deal younger than Hatoyama, presented themselves: Nobusuke Kishi, 60, the party's crafty, pushing secretary-general; Mitsujiro Ishii, 67, its astute planning chairman; and Tanzan Ishibashi, 72, oaken-faced Minister of International Trade and Industry. With no real dispute about policy between them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports...
...capital, the government took a chance: it printed the money to pay the miners who produced the tin that brought in the dollars needed for development. It calculated that greater farm production (lessening dependence on dollar-bought food) and greater exports of dollar-earners like oil might balance off trade before the boliviano went into a spin...
This is what the trade calls "impulse buying," and it accounts for most of today's estimated $15 million children's record business. The impulse is felt by all ages. Nobody among the junior low-fi set knows exactly what he will hear when he takes the disks home (buying has actually been cut down by a phonograph playing samples in the store) but the riotously colorful jackets are enough to make sales soar. Packaging and merchandising are fancy and getting fancier-Cellophane windows, stereoscopic pictures with viewer, picture books with sound cues on accompanying records for turning...
...operating in a country with a Catholic majority. He favored a gradual undermining of the Church's position rather than a direct frontal attack, picked a Polish political adventurer named Boleslaw Piasecki to lead a group of "progressive," i.e., proCommunist, Catholics. Piasecki had learned the tricks of his trade as an agent for Mussolini and later for the Gestapo, had organized shock troops to liquidate Red partisans in Poland. Picked up by the NKVD, he saved his neck by betraying his former pals...