Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short story, "The Case of the Too-Short Casket," which tells of an undertaker who is cutting corners to make a dollar. His technique is unfortunate, but his exclamations are delightful--"Well, here's a nice bucket o'worms." His colleagues are less colorful, but more devoted to their trade. Their distaste for their unscrupulous competitor is eased by their faith that, "Give him enough rope, he's sure to hand himself some...
...when the Russians and Germans invaded Poland. (Before he was born, his father had emigrated to the U.S., but returned when he discovered that the streets were not paved with gold.) Wladyslaw Gomulka in twelve years in the party had done all the things that Communists do, infiltrated trade unions, spread propaganda under the name of Comrade Duniak. He had been sentenced to four years "for arousing mobs to a dangerous state" and for conspiracy against the state, and shared a cell with six other Communists. Differing with them on minor ideological grounds, he refrained from speaking to them...
...Bargain) Shops that sell cut-rate goods to the poor. To supply them, he turns his gang into a kind of quartermaster looting corps which burgles other shops by night. In plots and counterplots of Chaplinesque strategy and Napoleonic execution, Mac reduces his competitors to satraps in his own trade empire and is elected a bank director into the bargain...
Despite such hazards, the scientists of the Commission Scientifique du Tchad are enthusiastic about the lake's apparent resurrection. It will immensely increase the agricultural yield of the region and stimulate trade along newly created waterways. At the same time, none of the scientists will predict how long the lake will continue to rise. Although it is currently higher than it has been in 50 years, its rise has not been accompanied by any increase in rainfall. The scientists' best guess: the underground reservoir of water into which the lake's waters have apparently been draining...
Slichter said that Harris "failed to discuss important aspects" of Eisenhower's policy, including reform of the Council of Economic Advisors, tax reform, farm policy, and foreign trade policy. He praised the Administration's management of the budget and said that although "growth of indebtedness should be carefully watched," it does not mean that present prosperity is "sham...